ikiwiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Version
2.67
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (25 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
A common browser
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8586 ⭐
4599 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term
: description
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove ikiwiki remove TiddlyWiki remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki