DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Pleiades-M45
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
various opt. helpers
A common browser
Datastorage DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
N/A
N/A
8486 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
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
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
No
Extras DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>below</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[ 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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Term:<def>
def
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
----
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