| General Features | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.0
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1.2.2
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2.5.9
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2.1.11
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-31 (1 month ago)
|
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
|
2026-04-05 (29 days ago)
|
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-31 (1 month ago)
|
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
|
2026-04-05 (29 days ago)
|
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Min Guhong
|
Clifford Adams
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
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GPL
|
GPL2+
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Personal, small to medium communities
|
All
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
|
| System Requirements | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
Any OS running PHP 8.2+
|
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx (optional)
|
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
PHP 8.2+; required: json, mbstring, session, hash, pcre; optional: zip, intl
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
|
| Datastorage | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Search/related indexes cached in JSON (auto-rebuild on stale/invalid)
|
No
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
26 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
| Common Features | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
2
English, Korean |
0
|
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 |
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 |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
None
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | WikiWikiWiki | UseMod | PmWiki | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Title]] [[Title|Alias]] [[Parent/Child]] |
|
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
<https://...> [Text](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki) |
|
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
# Headline 1 ## Headline 2 ### Headline 3 #### Headline 4 ##### Headline 5 ###### Headline 6 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== ====== Level 6 ====== |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
**Text** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
*Text* |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`code` |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~Text~~ |
N/A |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
 (image: https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg) |
http://url.com/pic.gif |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
|
N/A |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
> Quote |
: indented |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Watermelon - Melon - Peach - Fig - Cherry |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Watermelon 2. Melon 3. Peach 4. Fig 5. Cherry |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
Term : Definition |
;Term:Definition |
: term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove WikiWikiWiki | remove UseMod | remove PmWiki | remove Foswiki |