DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
1.32.2
1.02
2.3.13
2.3.33
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-08-29 (13 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-09-01 (13 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2024-04-01 (24 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Artistic License
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
FREE
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
family people, hackers
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any OS that runs Perl
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Catalyst
Writable data directory
none
None
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Patch
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
140
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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
JavaScript
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki MojoMojo Oddmuse PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Textile:
> text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* an item
* another item
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# item 1
# item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
<hr />
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
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