| General Features | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Version |
3.1 |
TWiki 4.3.2 |
1.9.1 |
1.15.0 |
Last Release Date |
8 December 2009 |
2009-09-02 |
2010-01-19 |
2009-06-10 |
Author |
Atlassian |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
moinmo.in |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
URL |
www.atlassian.com |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
moinmo.in |
www.mediawiki.org |
Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
Programming Language |
Java |
Perl |
Python |
PHP |
Data Storage |
Database |
Files, RCS |
Files |
Database |
License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
0 |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Intended Audience |
Enterprise |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
| Hosting Features | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Storage Quota |
10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Bandwidth Quota |
100GB/month |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Other Limits |
 No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Topic Restrictions |
 No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Corporate Branding |
 Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Own Domain |
 Optional |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Ads allowed |
 Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Root Access |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Webserver |
Tomcat, Resin, Weblogic, JBoss, Websphere |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares |
Any with PHP support |
Other Requirements |
Java 5 |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
 None |
 none |
| Datastorage | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Text Files |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
MySQL |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
PostgreSQL |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
Oracle |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
|
SQLite |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
RCS |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Other |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
 No |
 No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Page Permissions |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ACL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible |
 Yes |
Host Blocking |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Mail Encryption |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
nofollow |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Optional |
Blacklist |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
CAPTCHA |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
Delayed Indexing |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
| Development/Support | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Commercial Support |
 Yes, 26 listed |
 Yes, 34 listed |
 Yes, 10 listed |
 Yes, 47 listed |
Preconfigured Hosting |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Code Repository |
Source included with commercial license |
twiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
svn.wikimedia.org |
Issue Tracker |
jira.atlassian.com |
twiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
Mailing List |
www.atlassian.com |
twiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
lists.wikimedia.org |
Support Forum |
forums.atlassian.com |
twiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
mwusers.com |
IRC Channel |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
twiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
www.mediawiki.org |
| Common Features | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Preview |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Minor Changes |
 Yes |
 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 |
Page Index |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Special Features | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Right-to-Left Support |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Interface Languages |
 15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
 19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
|
 140 languages Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
Email notification |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Comments |
Threaded |
Threaded |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
Categories |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Namespaces |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Page Redirection |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Wiki Farming |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Structured Data |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
| Links | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
CamelCase |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Freelinks |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Backlinks |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
InterWiki |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
SisterWiki |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Image Links |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Windows Shares |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Page Redirects |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Syntax Features | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
HTML Tags |
 Optional |
All |
Some |
Some |
Math formulas |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
complex |
simple + complex |
CREOLE support |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Markdown Support |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Textile Support |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
BBCode Support |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Emoticon Images |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Footnotes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Quoting |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Internal Comments |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom styles |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
FAQ Tags |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
plugins, see comment ----------------> |
 Optional |
Content Includes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Feed Aggregation |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
| Usability | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Section Editing |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
Page Templates |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Double-Click Edit |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Toolbar |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WYSIWYG Editing |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Access Keys |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Auto Signature |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Statistics | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Recent Changes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Wanted Pages |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Orphaned Pages |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Most/Least Popular |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Recent Visitors |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
Analysis |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
| Output | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
HTML |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
CSS Stylesheets |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Mobile Friendly |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Themes & Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS Feeds |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM Feeds |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Abbreviations |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Auto-TOC |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Raw Export |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
HTML Export |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
XML export |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
PDF Export |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
| Media and Files | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
File Attachments |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Media Revisions |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Embedded Flash |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Embedded Video |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Image Editing |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
SVG Editing |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
MindMap Editing |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
Media Search |
Contents |
Contents |
Contents |
Keywords |
| Extras | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Calendar |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Image Galleries |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Forums |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
Blogs |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Ticket System |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
| Syntax Examples | Confluence  | TWiki  | MoinMoin  | MediaWiki  |
Internal Link |
 [Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc] |
 WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]] |
 CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]
[[target|label|params]] |
 [[a link]]
[[a link|with title]] |
External Link |
 [http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
 http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
 http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
|
 [http://example.org The title] |
Headlines |
 h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading |
 ---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
|
 = Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 ===== |
 ==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection==== |
Bold Format |
 *bold* |
 *bold*
|
 '''bold'''
'''strong emphasised''' |
 '''bold''' |
Italics Format |
 _italics_ |
 _italic_ |
 ''italic''
''emphasised'' |
 ''italic'' |
Underline Format |
 +underline+ |
 <u>underline</u> |
 __underline__ |
 <u>underlined</u> |
Monospace Format |
 {{monospace}} |
 =monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
|
 `monospaced` |
 <tt>monospace</tt> |
Strikethrough Format |
 -strikethrough- |
 <strike>strikethrough</strike> |
 --(strikethrough)-- |
 <s>strikethrough</s> |
Superscript Format |
 ^superscript^ |
 <sup>superscript</sup> |
 ^superscript^ |
 <sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
 ~subscript~ |
 <sub>subscript</sub> |
 ,,subscript,, |
 <sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
 !attached-image.jpg!
!Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail!
!http://example.com/external-image.jpg! |
 %ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png |
 {{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}} |
 [[Image:wiki.png]] |
Aligning Text |
 {html}<div align="right">{html} |
 | left | center | right |
or HTML
or CSS |
 only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
|
 <center>Centered</center> |
Text Indentation |
|
 <blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
|
  indented text
|
 : indented line |
Bulleted Lists |
 * one
** one-two
* two
* three |
   * Item 1
     * Item 1.1
  * Item 2
|
 * Item 1
 * Item 1.1
* Item 2
|
 * Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
 # one
## one-two
# two
# three |
   1. Item 1
     a. Item 1.a
  1. Item 2
|
 1. Item 1
 a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
|
 # Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
|
   $ Term: Definition
|
 term:: definition
|
 ; term : definition |
Horizontal Rule |
 ---- |
 --- |
 ----
-----
------ |
 ---- |
| Last updated | 2009-12-09 | 2009-09-03 | 2010-01-19 | 2009-06-10 |
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