TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
1.5.1
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 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
2019-07-19 (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
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
team
PukiWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
One theme, one PukiWiki
family people, hackers
System Requirements TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
OS independent
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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 TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
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
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TWiki 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
N/A
4600 ⭐
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
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 TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
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
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Links TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
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
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[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 6
====== 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
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%%underlined%%%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
N/A
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%strikethrough%%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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: Definition
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 TWiki remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki remove PukiWiki remove Oddmuse