TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Version
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
1.5.1
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (27 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
team
PukiWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
One theme, one PukiWiki
family people, hackers
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
OS independent
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
A common browser
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.
Writable data directory
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
8585 ⭐
4600 ⭐
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
no example known
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
:term|definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
--------------------
Depending on plugins:
----
remove TiddlyWiki remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki remove PukiWiki remove Oddmuse