| General Features | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.4.0
|
1.5.1
|
2.11.0
|
2.1.8
|
| Last Release Date |
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
|
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
|
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
|
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
|
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
|
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
|
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
|
| Author |
Roger Rene Kommer
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache License, Version 2.0
|
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
Apache License 2.0
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Java
|
PHP
|
Java
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Files
|
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
|
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
all
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
| System Requirements | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
|
OS independent
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
All Java Servlet Container, included
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 1.8+
|
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Google Datastore
|
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal and external with adapter
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
4 ⭐
|
N/A
|
88 ⭐
|
97 ⭐
|
| Common Features | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
2
German, English |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
|
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | GWiki | PukiWiki | JSPWiki | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
[path/Page] [My Title|path/Page] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.com] |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
h1. Heading 1 h2. Heading 2 |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
*Bold Format* |
''bold'' |
__bold__ |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_Italic format_ |
'''italic''' |
''italics'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
+Unterlined+ |
%%%underlined%%% |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{Monospace}} |
N/A |
{{monospace}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-StrikeThrough- |
%%strikethrough%% |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript^ |
N/A |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript~ |
N/A |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
N/A |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub Item |
+ Item 1 ++ Item 1.1 + Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
:term|definition |
;term:definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
-------------------- |
---- |
--- |
| remove GWiki | remove PukiWiki | remove JSPWiki | remove Foswiki |