DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.9
Pleiades-M45
1.9.11
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
corporate and special interest groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
Any
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
None
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Links DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ 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
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
-----
------
Depending on plugins:
----
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