TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
2.3.32
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
none
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Apache
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki MediaWiki PmWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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