| General Features | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.8
|
2.3.13
|
2.11.0
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
|
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
|
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
|
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
Apache License 2.0
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Perl
|
Java
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
free
|
0
|
N/A
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
family people, hackers
|
all
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Writable data directory
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
97 ⭐
|
67 ⭐
|
88 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
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 |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Perl
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | Oddmuse | JSPWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
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 |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
__bold__ |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
''italics'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
{{monospace}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
no example known |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one ** two |
* 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 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
;term:definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
---- |
--- |
| remove Foswiki | remove Oddmuse | remove JSPWiki | remove TWiki |