KeheiWiki vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki

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


''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[ 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
{{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
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* 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
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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