PodWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Version
0.9.1
TWiki-6.1.0
1.1.7
2.3.32
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2007-02-12 (17 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
March, 2007
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2007-03-28 (17 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Public Domain
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
N/A
Free
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
All
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Unix
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, *BSD
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
diffs
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
builtin
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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97 ⭐
Common Features PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
No
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples PodWiki TWiki Wala Wiki PmWiki DokuWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= headline =
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
B<bold>
*bold*
'''bolded'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
I<italics>
_italic_
''italicized''
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
via html only
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
monospaced.
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
via html only
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
via html only
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via html only
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
G<logo.png>
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
| 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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:Block-quoted text.
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# 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
via html only
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
----
----
----
---
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