Mycorrhiza Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. Hatta vs. Foswiki

General Features Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Version
1.12.1
2.6.0
1.6.6
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2022-09-04 (3 years ago)
2026-05-16 (9 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2022-09-05 (3 years ago)
2026-05-16 (9 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
Author
bouncepaw et al.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Radomir Dopieralski
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL2+
GPL v2
GPL
Programming Language
Go
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small communities and individuals
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Operating System
UNIX (tested on Linux and macOS, should work on BSD), might work on Plan 9. and Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Optional
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Git
none
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, Telegram
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
372 ⭐
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Special Features Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Titles only
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Yes
Links Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
None
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Possible to embed JS
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Mycorrhiza Wiki PmWiki Hatta Foswiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link | display text]]
[[wp>Interwiki]]
=> link
=> link | display text
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://link]]
[[http://link | display text]]
=> http://link
=> http://link | display text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= h2
== h3
=== h4
==== h5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
n/a
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
{-strikethrough-}
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
img { 
image
}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* like that
** nesting
* here
* {
multiline

entries
}
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
*. like that
**. nesting
*. here
*. {
multiline

entries
}
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
n/a
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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