ProWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. LionWiki

General Features ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Version
2.0.045
Pleiades-M45
5.1.21
2.3.13
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
BSD
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
corporate and special interest groups
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Unix/Linux
Any
Anything supported by Perl
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
none
perl 4 or newer
A common browser
Writable data directory
Datastorage ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Apache
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8587 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
JavaScript
Perl
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Statistics ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki KeheiWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse LionWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
; term: definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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