Sputnik vs. Wiki.js vs. Foswiki vs. PageWork

General Features Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Version
8.08.13
2.5.299
2.1.8
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Nicolas Giard
Foswiki Community
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
AGPL-v3
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
Lua
Javascript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
Everyone
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
All
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
All
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
Node.js
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Optional
Yes
No
Other
Git
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
19117 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, 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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
No
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
JS, CSS
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
No
Output Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
# Sputnik
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**Bold Text**
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
*Italic Text*
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
- - -
---
---
---
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