Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PageWork vs. Aneuch

General Features Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Version
2.1.11
2.3.13
0.4.8
0.50
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2016-02-17 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2016-06-28 (10 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Pitt Murmann
Aaron Graves
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv3
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
PERL
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
free
none
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
Medium-sized sites
Any
System Requirements Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any
Any (only tested on Apache)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Proprietary
Simple
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki Oddmuse PageWork Aneuch
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[Page]]
[[Page|page description]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[[http://www.google.com/]]
[[http://www.google.com/|Google]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= H1 =
= H1
=== H3
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
This is %%monospaced%%.
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
This is --not-- important.
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{{image.jpg}}
{{image.jpg|alt text}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
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