Foswiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.1.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
N/A
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
System Requirements Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
97 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
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
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, 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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki DokuWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
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 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
%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
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
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 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
---
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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