KeheiWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
1.5.1
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
Author
team
PukiWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Development/Support KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Internal Link 
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
''bold''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
'''italic'''
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
%%%underlined%%%
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
 
N/A
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
%%strikethrough%%
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
N/A
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
N/A
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text 
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
 
:term|definition
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
 
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