Foswiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Version
2.1.9
Pleiades-M45
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
corporate and special interest groups
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Development/Support Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
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