KeheiWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse

General Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.1.8
1.9.11
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
team
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
System Requirements KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Writable data directory
Datastorage KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
caching of content into database using plugins
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Apache
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Links KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media and Files KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

# one
## two
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
---
----
-----
------
Depending on plugins:
----
remove KeheiWiki remove Foswiki remove MoinMoin remove Oddmuse