Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.1.11
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
corporate and special interest groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
none
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Plugin
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Output Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
remove Foswiki remove JSPWiki remove KeheiWiki remove MediaWiki