| General Features | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5.299
|
2.1.8
|
0.4.8
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2.67
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
|
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
|
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
|
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Nicolas Giard
|
Foswiki Community
|
Pitt Murmann
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
AGPL-v3
|
GPL
|
GPLv3
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Javascript
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
$0
|
none
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Everyone
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Medium-sized sites
|
Anyone
|
| System Requirements | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Operating System |
All
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Any
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
All
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any
|
Any, or none
|
| Other Requirements |
Node.js
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
|
|
| Datastorage | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RCS |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
||
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
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
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
19117 ⭐
|
97 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
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
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JS, CSS
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wiki.js | Foswiki | PageWork | ikiwiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[link]] [[link|alternate text]] |
[[internal]] |
| External Link |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ |
[link text](http://example.org) |
| Headlines |
# 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 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
| Bold Format |
**Bold Text** |
*bold* |
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong). This is **bold**, too. |
**bold** __bold__ |
| Italics Format |
*Italic Text* |
_italic_ |
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized). This is in //italics//, too. |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
This is __underlined__. |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`Monospace Code` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
This is %%monospaced%%. |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
This is --not-- important. |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript Text^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^ |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript Text~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^} |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
| Images |
 |
%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 |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
> L1 quote >> L2 quote |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one * two ** two alpha ** two beta * three |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
| Numbered Lists |
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 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
| Definition Lists |
|
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
--- |
--- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
| remove Wiki.js | remove Foswiki | remove PageWork | remove ikiwiki |