| General Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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2.1.11
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5.1.21
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2.7.3
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
|
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
|
2026-07-26 (1 day ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
|
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
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2026-07-26 (1 day ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Foswiki Community
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Perl
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HTML, JavaScript
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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Individuals, private, small groups
|
All
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Any
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
A common browser
|
none
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Other |
No
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
optional extensions available
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
8615 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| 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 |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
JavaScript
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TiddlyWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
''bold'' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
//italic// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{{monospaced}}} |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~~subscript~~ |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * 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 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : description |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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