| General Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
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1.32.2
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TWiki-6.1.0
|
6.2.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
| Horizontal Rule |
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---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove Foswiki | remove MediaWiki | remove TWiki | remove WackoWiki |