General Features | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
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Version |
1.13.1
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2.1.8
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0.30.0
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2.4.0
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Last Release Date |
2011-07-20 (12 years ago)
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2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
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2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
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2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2011-08-14 (12 years ago)
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2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
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2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
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2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
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Author |
Poul Staugaard
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Foswiki Community
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David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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Roger Rene Kommer
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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 |
new BSD License
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GPL
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Ruby's
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Apache License, Version 2.0
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Programming Language |
Python
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Perl
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Ruby on Rails
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Java
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Data Storage |
other
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Files, RCS
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Database
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Database, Files
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
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0
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Free
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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 |
community/personal
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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general, education
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User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
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System Requirements | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Operating System |
Windows/Mac/Linux
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
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Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
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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 |
Google App Engine or SDK
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
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All Java Servlet Container, included
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Other Requirements |
Python 2.5
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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Ruby 2.0-2.6
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Java 1.8+
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Datastorage | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Text Files |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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MySQL |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
|
No
|
No
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RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Plugin
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Other |
App Engine
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caching of content into database using plugins
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Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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Google Datastore
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Security/Anti-Spam | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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Authentication Backends |
Google accounts
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Internal and external with adapter
|
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Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
nofollow |
No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Optional
|
Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
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Unknown
|
Yes
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Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
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Development/Support | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Code Repository | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
Support Forum | ||||
Chat Channel | ||||
Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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97 ⭐
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478 ⭐
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4 ⭐
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Common Features | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Special Features | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Interface Languages |
1
English |
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 |
1
English |
2
German, English |
Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Threaded
|
Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Links | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Image Links |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syntax Features | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
All
|
All
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Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Scripting |
JavaScript
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
None
|
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
|
Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Usability | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Toolbar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Statistics | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Output | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Themes & Skins |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Media and Files | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Extras | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Syntax Examples | giewiki | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
Internal Link |
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[path/Page] [My Title|path/Page] |
External Link |
http://appengine.google.com [[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
[http://example.com] |
Headlines |
!Headline |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
h1. Heading 1 h2. Heading 2 |
Bold Format |
''Bald'' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
*Bold Format* |
Italics Format |
//Italy// |
_italic_ |
_italic_, *italic* |
_Italic format_ |
Underline Format |
__Undertow__ |
<u>underline</u> |
underlined {: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
+Unterlined+ |
Monospace Format |
{{{Courier}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`monospace` |
{{Monospace}} |
Strikethrough Format |
--Sorry-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del> strikethrough {: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
-StrikeThrough- |
Superscript Format |
256^^2^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^Superscript^ |
Subscript Format |
Sub~~script~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~Subscript~ |
Images |
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>> (Args: file [alignment] [width%]) |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg), [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
Aligning Text |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
p{: style='text-align:left'} p{: style='text-align:right'} p{: style='text-align:center'} p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
{div:style=...} Aligned Text {div} |
Text Indentation |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
p {: style='margin-left:3em'} > blockquote |
{div:style=...} Aligned Text {div} |
Bulleted Lists |
* One * Two |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
Numbered Lists |
# One # Two |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub Item |
Definition Lists |
; term : description |
$ Term: Definition |
term : definition |
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
Horizontal Rule |
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