| General Features | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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1.45.3
|
2.1.11
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phpwiki-1.3.14
|
| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
|
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
|
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
PBworks
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Foswiki Community
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Determined by Solution Needs
|
0
|
$0
|
0
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Business Enterprises
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Any
|
| Hosting Features | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Storage Quota |
No limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
No limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
various opt. helpers
|
| Datastorage | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
N/A
|
No
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
|||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
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 |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Links | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Javascript
|
Optional
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Foswiki | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
[http://example.org The title] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<code>monospace</code> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
| Aligning Text |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
Indented block |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
<dl> </dl> |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove PBwiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Foswiki | remove PhpWiki |