| General Features | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.2.4
|
6.2.0
|
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
0.1
|
2.1.10
|
| Last Release Date |
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
|
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
|
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
|
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
|
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Adam Živnéř
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Remko Tronçon
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL v2
|
BSD
|
Public Domain (!)
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
other
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
free
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
advanced users, minimalists
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
Private users
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
| System Requirements | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
All PHP supported
|
OS Independent
|
any
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
Git
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
|
| Datastorage | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
no
|
Git repositories
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
||
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
| Common Features | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional |
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
0
|
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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Not available
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript (plugin)
|
actions (PHP)
|
optional
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | LionWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | WiGit | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
[Main page] [Our main page|Main page] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[InternalLink] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
http://lionwiki.0o.cz [Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
"External link":http://externallink.com |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
!H2 headline !!H3 headline |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
h1. Headline |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold'' |
**bold** |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
*Bold* |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
//italics// |
''ialic text'' |
_Italics_ |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
'__underline__' |
__underline__ |
optional or via css |
+underlined+ |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
==monospaced text== |
@monospace@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
'--strikethrough--' |
--strikethrough-- |
optional or via css |
-strikethrough- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript text^^ |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
vvsubscriptvv |
optional or via css |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[path_to_img.jpg] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[link to the image.jpg] |
!image.jpg! |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
|
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
optional or via css |
>Right-aligned |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
|
one two |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Fruit ** Apple *** Granny smith *** Golden delicious ** Orange * Vegetables ** Garlic ** Onion |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* Bulleted * List ** Sublist |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# First item ## First subitem ### First subsubitem ## Second subitem # Second item |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
# Numbered # List ## Sublist |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
|
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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