| General Features | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.67
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N/A
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2.1.11
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
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N/A
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2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
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2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
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2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
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2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Stunf BV
|
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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N/A
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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N/A
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Perl
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
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N/A
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Files, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
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$0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Anyone
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Companies, teams and professionals.
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| Hosting Features | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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161061273600
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
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N/A
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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N/A
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any, or none
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N/A
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
N/A
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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none
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| Datastorage | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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N/A
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No
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Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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N/A
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No
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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N/A
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No
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
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N/A
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No
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Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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N/A
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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No
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| Other |
N/A
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caching of content into database using plugins
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
N/A
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| nofollow |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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No
|
Plugin
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No
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| Development/Support | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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118 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Unknown
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No
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
1
English |
1
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 |
140
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, 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
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Yes
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Optional
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Threaded
|
Plugin
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Discussion Pages
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| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Links | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
Some
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| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Unknown
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| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
JavaScript
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
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| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ikiwiki | Papyrs | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[internal]] |
[Link](/page) |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[link text](http://example.org) |
[Link](https://papyrs.com) |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
## Heading |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** __bold__ |
**bold** |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
*italic* |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
`mono` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
~~strikethrough~~ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
  |
|
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
- list - list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. list 2. list |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
Link to [^1] [^1] some definition |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
*** |
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