KeheiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. UseMod

General Features KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Version
Pleiades-M45
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.45.3
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
none
Datastorage KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
None
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Apache
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Development/Support KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4629 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional, PHP
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Output KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki UseMod
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
: indented line
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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