Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.1.9
Pleiades-M45
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
corporate and special interest groups
family people, hackers
System Requirements Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
Writable data directory
Datastorage Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
----
remove Foswiki remove KeheiWiki remove Oddmuse