Foswiki vs. MyInfo

General Features Foswiki MyInfo
Version
2.1.11
7.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2021-05-25 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2021-06-03 (5 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Milenix Software Ltd.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
GPL
Commercial
Programming Language
Perl
C++
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
$99.95 (USD)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Personal, small companies, researchers, writers, students, teachers
System Requirements Foswiki MyInfo
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows 7 or newer
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Not needed
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Not needed
Datastorage Foswiki MyInfo
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Proprietary file format
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki MyInfo
Page Permissions
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki MyInfo
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki MyInfo
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki MyInfo
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links Foswiki MyInfo
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Foswiki MyInfo
HTML Tags
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Usability Foswiki MyInfo
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics Foswiki MyInfo
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output Foswiki MyInfo
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files Foswiki MyInfo
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Plugin
Unknown
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras Foswiki MyInfo
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki MyInfo
Internal Link 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
Visual editing
External Link 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
 
Visual editing
Headlines 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
 
Visual editing
Bold Format 
*bold*
 
Visual editing
Italics Format 
_italic_
 
Visual editing
Underline Format 
<u>underline</u>
 
Visual editing
Monospace Format 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
 
Visual editing
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
Visual editing
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
Visual editing
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
Visual editing
Images 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
 
Visual editing
Aligning Text 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
Visual editing
Text Indentation 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
Visual editing
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
Visual editing
Numbered Lists 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
Visual editing
Definition Lists 
$ Term: Definition
 
Visual editing
Horizontal Rule 
---
 
Visual editing
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