Pwic.wiki vs. Foswiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Version
1.2
2.1.11
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2026-04-25 (3 days ago)
Author
Team Pwic.wiki
Foswiki Community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
18 ⭐
118 ⭐
55 ⭐
Common Features Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
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 WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Patch
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
External API for automation and bots
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Pwic.wiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
*italics*
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
--underline--
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
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"}%
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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