Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PageWork

General Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Version
2.1.11
Pleiades-M45
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2010-07-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
corporate and special interest groups
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
Yes
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Extras Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki KeheiWiki PageWork
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[link]]
[[link|alternate 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://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
---
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