General Features | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
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Version |
2.1.8
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3.2.4
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1.9.11
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TWiki-6.1.0
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Last Release Date |
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
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2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
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2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
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2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
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2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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Author |
Foswiki Community
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Adam Živnéř
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https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
GPL
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GPL v2
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GPL
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GPL
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Programming Language |
Perl
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PHP
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Python
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Perl, JavaScript
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Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
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Files
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Files, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee |
$0
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free
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0
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N/A
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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advanced users, minimalists
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Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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System Requirements | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
All PHP supported
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
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Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
None
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
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Datastorage | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
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Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
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Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Development/Support | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Code Repository | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
Support Forum | ||||
Chat Channel | ||||
Stars on GitHub |
97 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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Common Features | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Special Features | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
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 |
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Categories |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Links | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Features | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
JavaScript (plugin)
|
plugins, see comment ---------------->
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Usability | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Statistics | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Output | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Media and Files | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Extras | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Examples | Foswiki | LionWiki | MoinMoin | TWiki |
Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[Main page] [Our main page|Main page] |
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]] [[target|label|params]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://lionwiki.0o.cz [Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz] |
http://google.de/ or [[http://google.de/ | Google]] or file://///server/share/file |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!H2 headline !!H3 headline |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold'' |
'''bold''' '''strong emphasised''' |
*bold* |
Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italics'' |
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
_italic_ |
Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
'__underline__' |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
`monospaced` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
'--strikethrough--' |
--(strikethrough)-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[path_to_img.jpg] |
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}} {{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}} {{target|alt|params}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
only in tables: ||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right || |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
indented text |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Fruit ** Apple *** Granny smith *** Golden delicious ** Orange * Vegetables ** Garlic ** Onion |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# First item ## First subitem ### First subsubitem ## Second subitem # Second item |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
|
term:: definition |
$ Term: Definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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