PodWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Wiclear vs. ikiwiki

General Features PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Version
0.9.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Pleiades-M45
1.9.11
1.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2007-02-12 (17 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (17 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
Andreas Gohr
team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
David Jobet
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
GPL2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
private users
Anyone
System Requirements PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Operating System
Unix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
All
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache
Any, or none
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
perl 4 or newer
None
MySql
Datastorage PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
builtin
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
English
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Not at the moment
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PodWiki DokuWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Wiclear ikiwiki
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[Title]
[[internal]]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[Title|http://url.to/]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
B<bold>
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
I<italics>
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
via html only
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`monospaced`
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
via html only
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via html only
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via html only
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
G<logo.png>
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
indented text
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
via html only
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
-----
------
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove PodWiki remove DokuWiki remove KeheiWiki remove MoinMoin remove Wiclear remove ikiwiki