KeheiWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
Author
team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
# 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 WackoWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
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]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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_
//italics//
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>
##monospace##
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>
vvsubscriptvv
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
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>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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