ProWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki

General Features ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Version
2.0.045
2.1.8
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Output ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media and Files ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples ProWiki Foswiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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