diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
index 9dff69ed9eb2..2d14096dcadd 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
@@ -323,6 +323,12 @@
      The <literal>trac</literal> <literal>httpd.extraSubservice</literal> has been removed from nixpkgs because it was unmaintained.
     </para>
    </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     The <literal>foswiki</literal> package and associated <literal>httpd.extraSubservice</literal> have been removed
+     from nixpkgs due to lack of maintainer.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </section>
 </section>
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/foswiki.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/foswiki.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c1ac8935a47..000000000000
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/foswiki.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-{ config, pkgs, lib, serverInfo, ... }:
-let
-  inherit (pkgs) foswiki;
-  inherit (serverInfo.serverConfig) user group;
-  inherit (config) vardir;
-in
-{
-  options.vardir = lib.mkOption {
-    type = lib.types.path;
-    default = "/var/www/foswiki";
-    description = "The directory where variable foswiki data will be stored and served from.";
-  };
-
-  # TODO: this will probably need to be better customizable
-  extraConfig =
-    let httpd-conf = pkgs.runCommand "foswiki-httpd.conf"
-      { preferLocalBuild = true; }
-      ''
-        substitute '${foswiki}/foswiki_httpd_conf.txt' "$out" \
-          --replace /var/www/foswiki/ "${vardir}/"
-      '';
-    in
-      ''
-        RewriteEngine on
-        RewriteRule /foswiki/(.*) ${vardir}/$1
-
-        <Directory "${vardir}">
-          Require all granted
-        </Directory>
-
-        Include ${httpd-conf}
-        <Directory "${vardir}/pub">
-          Options FollowSymlinks
-        </Directory>
-      '';
-
-  /** This handles initial setup and updates.
-      It will probably need some tweaking, maybe per-site.  */
-  startupScript = pkgs.writeScript "foswiki_startup.sh" (
-    let storeLink = "${vardir}/package"; in
-    ''
-      [ -e '${storeLink}' ] || needs_setup=1
-      mkdir -p '${vardir}'
-      cd '${vardir}'
-      ln -sf -T '${foswiki}' '${storeLink}'
-
-      if [ -n "$needs_setup" ]; then # do initial setup
-        mkdir -p bin lib
-        # setup most of data/ as copies only
-        cp -r '${foswiki}'/data '${vardir}/'
-        rm -r '${vardir}'/data/{System,mime.types}
-        ln -sr -t '${vardir}/data/' '${storeLink}'/data/{System,mime.types}
-
-        ln -sr '${storeLink}/locale' .
-
-        mkdir pub
-        ln -sr '${storeLink}/pub/System' pub/
-
-        mkdir templates
-        ln -sr '${storeLink}'/templates/* templates/
-
-        ln -sr '${storeLink}/tools' .
-
-        mkdir -p '${vardir}'/working/{logs,tmp}
-        ln -sr '${storeLink}/working/README' working/ # used to check dir validity
-
-        chown -R '${user}:${group}' .
-        chmod +w -R .
-      fi
-
-      # bin/* and lib/* shall always be overwritten, in case files are added
-      ln -srf '${storeLink}'/bin/* '${vardir}/bin/'
-      ln -srf '${storeLink}'/lib/* '${vardir}/lib/'
-    ''
-    /* Symlinking bin/ one-by-one ensures that ${vardir}/lib/LocalSite.cfg
-        is used instead of ${foswiki}/... */
-  );
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 67d460809e15..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, perlPackages }:
-
-perlPackages.buildPerlPackage rec {
-  pname = "foswiki";
-  version = "2.1.0";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/foswiki/${version}/Foswiki-${version}.tgz";
-    sha256 = "03286pb966h99zgickm2f20rgnqwp9wga5wfkdvirv084kjdh8vp";
-  };
-
-  outputs = [ "out" ];
-
-  buildInputs = with perlPackages; [
-    # minimum requirements from INSTALL.html#System_Requirements
-    AlgorithmDiff ArchiveTar AuthenSASL CGI CGISession CryptPasswdMD5
-    EmailMIME Encode Error FileCopyRecursive HTMLParser HTMLTree
-    IOSocketSSL JSON
-    LocaleMaketextLexicon LocaleMsgfmt
-    LWP URI perlPackages.Version
-    /*# optional dependencies
-    libapreq2 DBI DBDmysql DBDPg DBDSQLite FCGI FCGIProcManager
-    CryptSMIME CryptX509 ConvertPEM
-    */
-  ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    touch Makefile.PL
-    patchShebangs .
-  '';
-  configureScript = "bin/configure";
-
-  # there's even no makefile
-  doCheck = false;
-  installPhase = ''cp -r . "$out" '';
-
-  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 f05b03386aa1..f0ea071f9c59 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14281,8 +14281,6 @@ in
   firebird = callPackage ../servers/firebird { icu = null; stdenv = gcc5Stdenv; };
   firebirdSuper = firebird.override { icu = icu58; superServer = true; stdenv = gcc5Stdenv; };
 
-  foswiki = callPackage ../servers/foswiki { };
-
   frab = callPackage ../servers/web-apps/frab { };
 
   freepops = callPackage ../servers/mail/freepops { };