Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Foswiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Version
0.4.2
2.1.11
2.67
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Foswiki Community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Anyone
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any, or none
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
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
No
Yes
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
No
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
Output Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*Bold*
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
=Italic=
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
_Underline_
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
___
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Wiki CSharp .NET remove Foswiki remove ikiwiki