| General Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
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2.1.10
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v21.12.1
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| Last Release Date |
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2025-12-18 (12 days ago)
|
2022-01-06 (3 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2025-12-18 (12 days ago)
|
2022-01-08 (3 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Foswiki Community
|
Dan Brown
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL
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MIT
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
$0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
17952 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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 |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Foswiki | BookStack |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
|
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
|
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
|
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
|
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
|
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
|
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
|
| remove MediaWiki | remove Foswiki | remove BookStack |