Foswiki vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.1.8
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
1.5.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
N/A
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
97 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
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
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
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 Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, 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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
---+ 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 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
__underlined__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
N/A
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%strikethrough%%
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
:term|definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
---
Depending on plugins:
----
--------------------
----
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