TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta

General Features TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
2.1.11
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
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
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
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