DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.11
Pleiades-M45
2.5.8
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
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
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
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)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
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
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
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
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
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
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
@@monospace@@
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
N/A
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
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
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%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
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
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