Foswiki Features

Foswiki is a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki and collaboration platform. The structured wiki is typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Users without programming skills can create wiki applications. Developers can extend the functionality of Foswiki with Plugins.

Administrators can tailor their Foswiki installation with over 400 extensions available at foswiki.org.

Foswiki is supported by a large vibrant community. It is surrounded by a rich eco-system of diverse commercial service providers covering hosting, individual customizations and training.

Foswiki is the open source successor of TWiki. It was created on 2008-10-27 by its core developers since a company called TWIKI.NET enforced their trademark on TWiki by locking out all former contributors.

Foswiki is backwards compatible to TWiki and continues 10 years of experience and tradition. It's latest release fixes over 400 individual bugs relative to the current TWiki release. Major TWiki customers are in progress to migrate away from TWiki, i.e. as development and fixes of key enterprise features are only available upstream for Foswiki.

Visit Website: foswiki.org
General Features Foswiki
Version
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
License
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Development status
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
MySQL
No
PostgreSQL
No
Oracle
No
SQLite
No
BerkeleyDB
No
RCS
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
ACL
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Development/Support Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
97 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Page History
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Special Features Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Interface Languages
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
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Search
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Links Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Usability Foswiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Statistics Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Output Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
XML export
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Media and Files Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Extras Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Chat
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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Downloadable Software Foswiki is downloadable software that you can install on your own computer or host it on a server on the Internet.
Foswiki Consultants

There are currently 8 consultants listed providing services for Foswiki.

Premium Consultants:

KM-A Knowledge Management Associates This is a premium entry
Vienna, Austria

KM-A offers more than 15 years of experience with wiki projects in academia, companies and public sector organizations. From comprehensive knowledge management strategies to tool-specific selection and implementation projects. With Knowledge.wiki we offer a 100% open-source solution based on Semantic MediaWiki for building custom knowledge graph solutions.

provides consulting, setup/configuration, customizing, programming, training

km-a.net
bernhard.krabina@km-a.net
+43676 5103593