| General Features | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
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18.6.0
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2026-07-27 (15 days ago)
|
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2026-07-28 (14 days ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
GPL
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| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database, RCS
|
Database, Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Any
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| Hosting Features | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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| System Requirements | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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various opt. helpers
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
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gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
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||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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 | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
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 |
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Links | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | XWiki | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details. The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax). [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
//Italics// |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--Strike-- |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
---- |
| remove Foswiki | remove XWiki | remove PhpWiki |