ProWiki vs. Foswiki vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PukiWiki

General Features ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Version
2.0.045
2.1.8
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Foswiki Community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
N/A
free
0
Development status
Mature
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
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Optional
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, 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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Output ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Foswiki TWiki Oddmuse PukiWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
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
---+ 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
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
N/A
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<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
* 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
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
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
---
Depending on plugins:
----
--------------------
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