KeheiWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Apache
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
%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]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
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]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<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>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<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
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

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