MoasdaWiki vs. GWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Instiki

General Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Version
3.7.1
2.4.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.8
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2023-12-31 (4 months ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-01-01 (4 months ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Roger Rene Kommer
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
Apache License, Version 2.0
MPL-2.0
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free
Free!
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
general, education
System Requirements MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
Java 1.8+
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
No
Google Datastore
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal and external with adapter
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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133 ⭐
97 ⭐
478 ⭐
Common Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
2
German, English
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Links MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Usability MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[http://example.com]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# 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######
Bold Format
''bold''
*Bold Format*
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
_Italic format_
_italics_
_italic_
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
{{Monospace}}
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
-StrikeThrough-
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^Superscript^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
~Subscript~
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| 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'}
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
$ Term: Definition
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-------
---
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