Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
2.1.11
Pleiades-M45
1.32.2
2.5.8
6.2.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
corporate and special interest groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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 KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
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
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
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
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
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Media and Files Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[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://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((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
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# 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
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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