KeheiWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki

General Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.3.13
2.5.4
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (11 days ago)
Author
team
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
family people, hackers
All
System Requirements KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Internal Link
%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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
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
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
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