Mycorrhiza Wiki vs. Wiki.js vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Pwic.wiki

General Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Version
1.12.1
2.5.299
2.5.8
2.1.10
1.2
Last Release Date
2022-09-04 (3 years ago)
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2022-09-05 (3 years ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
Author
bouncepaw et al.
Nicolas Giard
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
Team Pwic.wiki
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
AGPL-v3
GPL2+
GPL
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
Programming Language
Go
Javascript
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small communities and individuals
Everyone
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
System Requirements Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Operating System
UNIX (tested on Linux and macOS, should work on BSD), might work on Plan 9. and Windows
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Optional
All
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
Other Requirements
Git
Node.js
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, Telegram
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
368 ⭐
27997 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
18 ⭐
Common Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
3
German, English, French
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Search
Titles only
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Links Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Possible to embed JS
JS, CSS
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
External API for automation and bots
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media and Files Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Mycorrhiza Wiki Wiki.js PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link | display text]]
[[wp>Interwiki]]
=> link
=> link | display text
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
External Link
[[http://link]]
[[http://link | display text]]
=> http://link
=> http://link | display text
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
Headlines
= h2
== h3
=== h4
==== h5
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
*Italic Text*
''italic''
_italic_
*italics*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
--underline--
Monospace Format
`monospace`
`Monospace Code`
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~Strikethrough Text~~
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~Subscript Text~
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
Images
img { 
image
}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
Bulleted Lists
* like that
** nesting
* here
* {
multiline

entries
}
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
*. like that
**. nesting
*. here
*. {
multiline

entries
}
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
---
---
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