| General Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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2.1.11
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0.11.5
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (11 days ago)
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2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Foswiki Community
|
Edgewall Software
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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Modified BSD license
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Perl
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Python
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Beta
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| 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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Software development teams
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
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| Other Requirements |
none
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Other |
No
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
0
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
118 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| 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 |
141
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, Javanese, 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 |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Foswiki | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
| 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 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove MediaWiki | remove Foswiki | remove TracWiki |