General Features | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
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Version |
2.1.8
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TWiki-6.1.0
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2.3.33
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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Last Release Date |
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
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2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
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2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
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Author |
Foswiki Community
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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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
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GPL2+
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GPL
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Programming Language |
Perl
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Perl, JavaScript
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PHP
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PHP
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Data Storage |
Files, RCS
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Files, RCS
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Files
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Database, Files, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee |
$0
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N/A
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0
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0
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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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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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All
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Any
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System Requirements | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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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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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
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Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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none
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various opt. helpers
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Datastorage | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Text Files |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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MySQL |
No
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No
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Plugin
|
Yes
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PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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SQLite |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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RCS |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
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Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Optional
|
No
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Mail Encryption |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
No
|
nofollow |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
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CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
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Development/Support | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Code Repository | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
Support Forum | ||||
Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
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Stars on GitHub |
97 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Common Features | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
|
Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Special Features | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
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Optional
|
No
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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 |
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 |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
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Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Concurrent Editing |
No
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Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Links | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Syntax Features | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
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Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
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Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
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TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
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MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
plugins, templates, PHP
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Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Usability | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Statistics | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Output | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
XML export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Media and Files | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Extras | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Examples | Foswiki | TWiki | PmWiki | PhpWiki |
Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
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 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
Italics Format |
_italic_ |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>above</sup> |
Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>below</sub> |
Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
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 |
* list or - list |
Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# list |
Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
Term:<def> def |
Horizontal Rule |
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---- |
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remove Foswiki | remove TWiki | remove PmWiki | remove PhpWiki |