DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
1.5.1
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (27 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
team
PukiWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
One theme, one PukiWiki
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
OS independent
Anything supported by Perl
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4600 ⭐
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

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

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''italic'''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%%underlined%%%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
N/A
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%strikethrough%%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
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
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
:term|definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
--------------------
Depending on plugins:
----
remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki remove PukiWiki remove Oddmuse