TWiki vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.1.11
2.7.4
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2026-07-31 (14 days ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2026-07-31 (14 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
$0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
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
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media and Files TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki Foswiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]]
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
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold*
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
_italic_
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
| 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
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
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
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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