KeheiWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki

General Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.1.8
1.9.11
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
team
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
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
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
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
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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 DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
caching of content into database using plugins
No
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Development/Support KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Output KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media and Files KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse DokuWiki
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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
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>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<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)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
Plugin
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
N/A
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
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
---
----
-----
------
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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