Pwic.wiki vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Version
1.2
2.1.11
2.5.9
Last Release Date
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2026-04-05 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2026-04-05 (23 days ago)
Author
Team Pwic.wiki
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
System Requirements Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
18 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
3
German, English, French
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
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
Email notification
Patch
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
External API for automation and bots
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Pwic.wiki Foswiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*italics*
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
--underline--
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
----
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