DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
1.45.3
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Zope
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
4631 ⭐
116 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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