DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. Oddmuse

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
1.32.2
1.02
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-08-29 (13 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-09-01 (13 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Artistic License
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
FREE
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any OS that runs Perl
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Catalyst
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Patch
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, 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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
JavaScript
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Textile:
> text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* an item
* another item
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# item 1
# item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
<hr />
Depending on plugins:
----
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