| General Features | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
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0.72
|
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
|
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Dominic Hargreaves
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL/Artistic
|
AGPLv3
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Perl
|
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
Free
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Wiki Developers
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
| Hosting Features | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
no limit
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
max uploaded file size limit
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
by Terms Of Service
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Anything that runs Perl
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Anything with CGI support
|
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
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| Datastorage | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Plugin Interface
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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
|
No
|
No
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
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 |
0
|
2
English, Polish |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Output | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | Wiki-Toolkit | Wikidot |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
|
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
|
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
|
+++ headline level 3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
|
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
|
//italic text// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
|
__underlined text__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
{{monospaced text}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
|
--strikethrough text-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
|
[[image src="..."]] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
= Centered line |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
* element 1 * element 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
|
# element 1 # element 1 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
|
: item : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
|
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