ProWiki vs. TWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Version
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
corporate and special interest groups
System Requirements ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki TWiki 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 TWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
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
Plugin
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki TWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
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://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
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
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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