DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Wiclear vs. ikiwiki

General Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Pleiades-M45
1.9.11
1.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
David Jobet
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
GPL2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
private users
Anyone
System Requirements DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
All
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache
Any, or none
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
None
MySql
Datastorage DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Yes
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
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Not at the moment
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[Title]
[[internal]]
External Link
[[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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[Title|http://url.to/]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`monospaced`
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
-----
------
---
***
___
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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