Wiki CSharp .NET vs. Foswiki vs. TWiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Version
0.4.2
2.1.11
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Foswiki Community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
N/A
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
# 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 Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Output Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
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 Wiki CSharp .NET Foswiki TWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*Bold*
*bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
=Italic=
_italic_
_italic_
Underline Format
_Underline_
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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