| General Features | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
|
1.5.1
|
0.11.5
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
Edgewall Software
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
Modified BSD license
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
Software development teams
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
OS independent
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
0
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | PukiWiki | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
''bold'' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
'''italic''' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
%%%underlined%%% |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
N/A |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
%%strikethrough%% |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
N/A |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
N/A |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
|
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
N/A |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
+ Item 1 ++ Item 1.1 + Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
:term|definition |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
-------------------- |
---- |
| remove Foswiki | remove PukiWiki | remove TracWiki |