JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.33
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
corporate and special interest groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
None
various opt. helpers
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Links JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
-----
------
----
----
--------------------
---
remove JSPWiki remove KeheiWiki remove MoinMoin remove PhpWiki remove PmWiki remove PukiWiki remove TWiki