Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.1.11
Pleiades-M45
1.32.2
1.5.1
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
0
Development status
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
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS independent
OS Independent
Root Access
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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)
Datastorage Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
Yes
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
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
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Output Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Foswiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
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]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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
** Level 2
*** Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
#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
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
N/A
one
two
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
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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}
Horizontal Rule
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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