| General Features | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
|
0.4.8
|
8.08.13
|
5.1.21
|
0.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
|
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
|
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Pitt Murmann
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Remko Tronçon
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPLv3
|
MIT/X
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
Lua
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
other
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
none
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Medium-sized sites
|
Small teams or private users
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Private users
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Any
|
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Any
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any
|
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
|
gcc or Lua
|
A common browser
|
Git
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Git
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
Git repositories
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Proprietary
|
Yes
|
optional extensions available
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
8598 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
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 |
2
German, English |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
0
|
| Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Not available
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Lua, JavaScript
|
JavaScript
|
||
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | PageWork | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | WiGit |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
[[Sputnik]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[InternalLink] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
"External link":http://externallink.com |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= L1 = == L2 == === L3 === ==== L4 ==== ===== L5 ===== = L1 == L2 === L3 ==== L4 ===== L5 |
# Sputnik |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
h1. Headline |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
''bold'' |
*Bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//italic// |
_Italics_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
This is __underlined__. |
|
__underline__ |
+underlined+ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
|
{{{monospaced}}} |
@monospace@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
This is --not-- important. |
|
--strikethrough-- |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
|
~~subscript~~ |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}} |
|
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
!image.jpg! |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}} |
|
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
>Right-aligned |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
> Sputnik |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
* Sputnik |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Bulleted * List ** Sublist |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# one # two ## two alpha ## two beta # three |
1. Sputnik |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Numbered # List ## Sublist |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
|
; term : description |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
--- |
- - - |
---- |
|
| remove Foswiki | remove PageWork | remove Sputnik | remove TiddlyWiki | remove WiGit |