ProWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Version
2.0.045
phpwiki-1.3.14
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Any
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Plugin
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Apache
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Patch
Yes
Links ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Keywords
Extras ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>striked through</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
[ 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
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* list
or
- list
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
# list
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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