| General Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
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1.45.3
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0.12.0
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
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2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
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2026-06-03 (8 days ago)
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2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
legolas558
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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GPLv2
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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PHP
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JavaScript
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| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
|
| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Advanced End Users
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| System Requirements | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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OS Independent (Browser Application)
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Any with PHP support
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|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
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JavaScript-capable browser
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| Datastorage | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
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Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
Supports per-page AES encryption
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
None
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
No
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
2
English, Italian |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Output | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | MediaWiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[WoaS test page]] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Header 1 == Header 2 === Header 3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
*bold text* |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
/italics text/ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
_underlined text_ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[[Image::woas.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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