| General Features | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.5.1
|
2.3.13
|
2.1.11
|
| Last Release Date |
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
|
| Author |
PukiWiki Development Team
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
free
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
family people, hackers
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
| System Requirements | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
OS independent
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
|
Writable data directory
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
No
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
89 ⭐
|
118 ⭐
|
| Common Features | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
To current
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
Perl
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | PukiWiki | Oddmuse | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
optional, default on: [[page name]] optional, default off: PageName [PageName] → [1] [[[page name]]] → [1] [PageName text] → text [[page name|text]] → text Depending on plugins: [text](page) → text |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
''bold'' |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
'''italic''' |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
%%%underlined%%% |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
N/A |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
%%strikethrough%% |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
N/A |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
N/A |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
no example known |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
* one ** two |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
+ Item 1 ++ Item 1.1 + Item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
:term|definition |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
-------------------- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
--- |
| remove PukiWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove Foswiki |