What is Foswiki?
Foswiki is an open source wiki application written in Perl that allows users to freely create, organize, and link web page content. It includes features such as:
- A simple text syntax for creating pages and linking them together
- Revisions and page history to track changes
- Access control lists for managing user permissions
- Templates and forms for customizing the user interface
- A plugin architecture to extend functionality with add-ons
Some key advantages of Foswiki include its large developer and user community, stability and security updates, hundreds of free add-on extensions, and advanced functionality suitable for enterprise use while remaining easy for non-technical users. Its text-based format also makes it fast and efficient to use compared to more graphics-heavy wiki software.
Potential drawbacks are its plain default appearance requiring customization, somewhat steep learning curve for administrators, and reliance on Perl which can limit adoption compared to wikis based on more popular languages. But overall Foswiki remains a capable, flexible, and actively-developed open source wiki platform.
Confluence, DokuWiki, TiddlyWiki, Nuclino, MediaWiki, Wiki.js, WackoWiki, Walling, XWiki, MoinMoin, ScrewTurn Wiki, Indigrid, Widget-Board, Notea, YesWiki, Hivemind are some alternatives to Foswiki.