Foswiki vs. GWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Version
2.1.9
2.4.0
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Roger Rene Kommer
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Google Datastore
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
Apache
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Development/Support Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
7 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
Optional
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki GWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
*bold*
*Bold Format*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
_italic_
_Italic format_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove Foswiki remove GWiki remove KeheiWiki