DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
Pleiades-M45
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
corporate and special interest groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
perl 4 or newer
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Apache
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ 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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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