| General Features | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
TWiki-6.1.0
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v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
|
2.1.11
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| Last Release Date |
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
|
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
|
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
|
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Starbeamrainbowlabs
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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MPL-2.0
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
N/A
|
Free!
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
| System Requirements | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux / Windows
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Anything PHP enabled
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | 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 |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
n/a
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
None yet
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
206 ⭐
|
118 ⭐
|
| Common Features | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
No
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
| Extras | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | Pepperminty Wiki | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[Internal Link]]s |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
 |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
# Headline |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold text** |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
_italics_ |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
|
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`code text` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
~~strikethough text~~ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
sometext^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
sometext~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
 |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Col1 | Col2 | Col3 -------|--------|------- this | is | a mark|down|table |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
> Blockquote |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item A * Item B * Item C |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. A 2. B 3. C |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
|
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
------- |
--- |
| remove TWiki | remove Pepperminty Wiki | remove Foswiki |