UseMod vs. Foswiki vs. PageWork

General Features UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Version
1.2.2
2.1.11
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Foswiki Community
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Patch
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support UseMod Foswiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
0
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links UseMod Foswiki PageWork
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Foswiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod Foswiki PageWork
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod Foswiki PageWork
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
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
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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