Item336: Create an entry in Wikipedia comparison of wiki software systems (10 min)

• Refers to wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software
• The page will not be updated until we have our first release
• The code to be inserted is below together with some questions.

General Information

| {{rh}} | [[Foswiki]]
| Foswiki Community
| ** Insert First public release date {{dts|link=off|2008|December|xx}} **
| ** Insert latest stable release (version number) **
| ** Insert stable release date {{dts|link=off|2008|December|xx}}
| [[TWiki]]
| Free
| [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]
| {{yes}}
| [[ISO8859-1]], [[UTF-8]]
| {{yes}}
| [[Perl]]
| [[Flat-file]], [[Revision Control System|RCS]], pluggable storage backend
|-

Target Audience

• Same as TWiki

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! {{rh}} | [[Foswiki]]
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}

Features 1

• Same as TWiki

! {{rh}} | [[Foswiki]]
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}<ref>IP blacklist, content by regexp, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses</ref>
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| templates, skins, user [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]]
| {{yes}}, fixing backlinks
|-

Features 2

• WYSIWYG Support Q4Dev Will our first release have WYSIWYG?
• Web Feeds – (same as TWiki) yes, preinstalled plugin
• Extensibility – Q4Dev How many plug ins should we say we support?
• Cross wiki support – (same as TWiki) - Yes, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin
• Other features
  • Q4Dev How many languages does Foswiki support
  • Q4Dev Wysiwyg question again

please check that Foswiki supports the following list items: Revision control, ACLs for topics, tagging, blogging, calendaring, charting, global search & replace, email notification, form handling and reporting, platform to build wiki applications, graphing, slideshow presentations, plotting, multistyle diffs, advanced searching, spreadsheet calculations, WYSIWYG supports TML

Installation

• Platform - Linux, Unix, MSW & others
• Ease of installation: Easy on *nix, moderately difficult on MS-Windows
  • Q4Dev – What is our stance on the WikiRing Windows installer?
• Web-server required - Any Web-server with cgi support.
  • Q4Dev - Web-server included in [http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiVMDebianStable VMware appliance] and [http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiForWindowsPersonal TWiki for MS-Windows Personal].
• Other software required – Perl, RCS
• Installable to USB stick – No