diff --git a/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c58313259580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perlPackages }:
+
+perlPackages.buildPerlPackage rec {
+  name = "foswiki-${version}";
+  version = "2.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/foswiki/${version}/Foswiki-${version}.tgz";
+    sha256 = "03286pb966h99zgickm2f20rgnqwp9wga5wfkdvirv084kjdh8vp";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with perlPackages; [
+    # minimum requirements from INSTALL.html#System_Requirements
+    AlgorithmDiff ArchiveTar AuthenSASL CGI CGISession CryptPasswdMD5
+    DigestSHA EmailMIME Encode Error FileCopyRecursive HTMLParser HTMLTree
+    IOSocketIP IOSocketSSL JSON
+    LocaleMaketext LocaleMaketextLexicon LocaleMsgfmt
+    LWP URI perlPackages.version
+    /*# optional dependencies
+    libapreq2 DBI DBDmysql DBDPg DBDSQLite FCGI FCGIProcManager
+    CryptSMIME CryptX509 ConvertPEM
+    */
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    touch Makefile.PL
+    patchShebangs .
+  '';
+  configureScript = "bin/configure";
+
+  # there's even no makefile
+  doCheck = false;
+  installPhase = ''cp -r . "$out" ''; # TODO: some fixups will be needed for running it
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "An open, programmable collaboration platform";
+    homepage = http://foswiki.org;
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 507fb957a848..ac33fb72b59a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9570,6 +9570,8 @@ let
 
   fleet = callPackage ../servers/fleet { };
 
+  foswiki = callPackage ../servers/foswiki { };
+
   freepops = callPackage ../servers/mail/freepops { };
 
   freeswitch = callPackage ../servers/sip/freeswitch { };