| General Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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2.1.11
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0.12.0
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
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2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
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2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
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2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Foswiki Community
|
legolas558
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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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GPLv2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Perl
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JavaScript
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
|
|
| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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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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Advanced End Users
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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OS Independent (Browser Application)
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
|
| Other Requirements |
none
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
JavaScript-capable browser
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Supports per-page AES encryption
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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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 | Wiki on a Stick |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
None
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
No
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| 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 |
2
English, Italian |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Foswiki | Wiki on a Stick |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[WoaS test page]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= Header 1 == Header 2 === Header 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
*bold text* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
/italics text/ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
_underlined text_ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}} |
| 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"}% |
[[Image::woas.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 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove Foswiki | remove Wiki on a Stick |