Wiki.js vs. Foswiki vs. PageWork vs. ikiwiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Version
2.5.299
2.1.8
0.4.8
2.67
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Foswiki Community
Pitt Murmann
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Javascript
Perl
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Medium-sized sites
Anyone
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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 DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Patch
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
caching of content into database using plugins
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
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
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
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JS, CSS
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki.js Foswiki PageWork ikiwiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[[internal]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
---------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
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
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
N/A
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
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
---
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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