KeheiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.5.8
1.5.1
6.2.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Links KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Media and Files KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
@@monospace@@
N/A
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'^superscript^'
N/A
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'_subscript_'
N/A
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: term : definition
:term|definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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