DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
2.5.8
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
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. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
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.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
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)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
No
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
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)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
@@monospace@@
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
Plugin
<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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* 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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
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