KeheiWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki

General Features KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
2.1.8
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
team
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
free
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
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
Yes
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
caching of content into database using plugins
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Development/Support KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
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
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
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 Oddmuse TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki Foswiki Oddmuse TWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

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

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
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://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
---
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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