Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki

General Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Version
2.1.9
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
free
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Development/Support Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
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)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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