EditMe vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Version
N/A
2.5.6
phpwiki-1.3.14
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
All
Any
corporate and special interest groups
Hosting Features EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
various opt. helpers
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Apache
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe PmWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[ 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
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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