| General Features | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.13.1
|
1.6.6
|
2.1.8
|
0.30.0
|
2.4.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2011-07-20 (12 years ago)
|
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
|
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
|
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
|
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2011-08-14 (12 years ago)
|
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
|
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
|
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
|
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Poul Staugaard
|
Radomir Dopieralski
|
Foswiki Community
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Roger Rene Kommer
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
new BSD License
|
GPL v2
|
GPL
|
Ruby's
|
Apache License, Version 2.0
|
| Programming Language |
Python
|
Python
|
Perl
|
Ruby on Rails
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
other
|
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
$0
|
0
|
Free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
community/personal
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
general, education
|
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
|
|
| System Requirements | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows/Mac/Linux
|
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Google App Engine or SDK
|
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
All Java Servlet Container, included
|
| Other Requirements |
Python 2.5
|
Mercurial
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
Java 1.8+
|
| Datastorage | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
App Engine
|
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
Google Datastore
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Google accounts
|
n/a
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Internal and external with adapter
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Development/Support | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
#wiki at freenode.net
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
97 ⭐
|
478 ⭐
|
4 ⭐
|
| Common Features | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish |
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
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
None
|
All
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
JavaScript
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
None
|
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Statistics | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | giewiki | Hatta | Foswiki | Instiki | GWiki |
| Internal Link |
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
[[link]] [[link|label]] |
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]] |
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
[http://example.com] |
| Headlines |
!Headline |
= h1 = == h2 == ... ===== h5 ===== |
---+ 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** |
*Bold Format* |
| Italics Format |
//Italy// |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
_italic_, *italic* |
_Italic format_ |
| Underline Format |
__Undertow__ |
n/a |
<u>underline</u> |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
+Unterlined+ |
| Monospace Format |
{{{Courier}}} |
{{{verbatim}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`monospace` |
{{Monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Sorry-- |
n/a |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
-StrikeThrough- |
| Superscript Format |
256^^2^^ |
n/a |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^Superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
Sub~~script~~ |
n/a |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~Subscript~ |
| Images |
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>> (Args: file [alignment] [width%]) |
{{image}}
{{image|alt}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
| Aligning Text |
|
n/a |
| 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 |
|
n/a |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
| Bulleted Lists |
* One * Two |
* list ** sublist |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
| Numbered Lists |
# One # Two |
n/a |
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 |
n/a |
$ Term: Definition |
term : definition |
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
--- |
*** |
---- |
| remove giewiki | remove Hatta | remove Foswiki | remove Instiki | remove GWiki |