ikiwiki vs. PageWork vs. Foswiki vs. WikiCrowd

General Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Version
2.67
0.4.8
2.1.11
0.0.16
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
29 Nov, 2010
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Pitt Murmann
Foswiki Community
Stas Davydov
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Anyone
Medium-sized sites
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Personal, Corporate, Community
System Requirements ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Operating System
Any
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
Datastorage ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
No
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
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
English, Russian
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Plugin, JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki WikiCrowd
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
No
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
No
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
No
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
_subscript_
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
@img url
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
No
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
No
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
No
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
No
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
---
No
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