Foswiki vs. PageWork vs. WikyBlog

General Features Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Version
2.1.11
0.4.8
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Pitt Murmann
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Medium-sized sites
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
MySQL
Datastorage Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Proprietary
No
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
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
2
German, English
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
No
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki PageWork WikyBlog
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
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}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
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