Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
2.1.11
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
2.5.8
1.5.1
6.2.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
corporate and special interest groups
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
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)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
@@monospace@@
N/A
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
N/A
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
N/A
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
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 text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
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 text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
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 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
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 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
:term|definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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