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

General Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Version
0.4.2
0.4.8
2.1.11
2.67
2.7.3
Last Release Date
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
Author
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Pitt Murmann
Foswiki Community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL V3
GPLv3
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
$0
0
0
Development status
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, small and big team
Medium-sized sites
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Anyone
All
System Requirements Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Patch
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Proprietary
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki CSharp .NET PageWork Foswiki ikiwiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
=Italic=
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Underline Format
_Underline_
This is __underlined__.
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
This is %%monospaced%%.
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-Strike-
This is --not-- important.
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[$Image file$]
{{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"}%
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
-list1
--list2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#list1
##list2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
___
---
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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