Wiki CSharp .NET vs. ikiwiki vs. PageWork vs. Foswiki

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Version
0.4.2
2.67
0.4.8
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Pitt Murmann
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
$0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Anyone
Medium-sized sites
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Operating System
Windows
Any
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
2
German, 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
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Output Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET ikiwiki PageWork Foswiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
__bold__
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold*
Italics Format
=Italic=
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italic_
Underline Format
_Underline_
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[$Image file$]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
___
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
---
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