Foswiki vs. ikiwiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PageWork vs. Wiclear

General Features Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Version
2.1.11
2.67
Pleiades-M45
0.4.8
1.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
team
Pitt Murmann
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
GPLv3
GPL2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Anyone
corporate and special interest groups
Medium-sized sites
private users
System Requirements Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Unix/Linux
Any
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any, or none
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any
Apache
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
MySql
Datastorage Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Apache
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
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
1
English
1
English
2
German, English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Keywords
No
Extras Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki PageWork Wiclear
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[Title]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
This is %%monospaced%%.
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
---
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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