PBwiki vs. PmWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Version
N/A
2.5.6
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
All
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
corporate and special interest groups
Hosting Features PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Unix/Linux
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
No
Plugin
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
No
Unknown
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki PmWiki PhpWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[ 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
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Indented block
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove PBwiki remove PmWiki remove PhpWiki remove TWiki remove KeheiWiki