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Feature Comparison

General FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Version 2009-12-25 1.16.0 1.9.3 TWiki 5.0.0
Last Release Date 2009-12-25 2010-07-28 2010-06-27 2009-05-29
Author Andreas Gohr Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. moinmo.in Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org moinmo.in twiki.org and www.twiki.net
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL 2 GPL GPL GPL
Programming Language PHP PHP Python Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage Files Database Files Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience private, small to medium companies End Users/Desktop, Education Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System RequirementsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Operating System Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others *nix, Windows, Mac OS X UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access No No No No
Webserver Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support Any with PHP support Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0
Other Requirements   none None RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DatastorageDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Text Files Yes No Yes Yes
MySQL No Yes No No
PostgreSQL No Yes No No
Oracle No   No No
SQLite No Yes No No
BerkeleyDB No No No No
RCS No No No Yes
Other None No No RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-SpamDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes No Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory 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
Host Blocking Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Mail Encryption Optional Plugin Optional Yes
nofollow Optional Optional No Plugin
Blacklist Optional Yes Yes Plugin
CAPTCHA Plugin Plugin Optional Plugin
Delayed Indexing Optional No No Plugin
Development/SupportDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 28 listed Yes, 52 listed Yes, 11 listed Yes, 33 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository dev.splitbrain.org svn.wikimedia.org see moinmo.in twiki.org
Issue Tracker bugs.splitbrain.org bugzilla.wikimedia.org see moinmo.in twiki.org
Mailing List www.freelists.org lists.wikimedia.org see moinmo.in twiki.org
Support Forum forum.dokuwiki.org mwusers.com see moinmo.in twiki.org
IRC Channel www.dokuwiki.org www.mediawiki.org see moinmo.in twiki.org
Common FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
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 FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes Yes No
Interface Languages 51 languages
Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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		   19 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification Optional Optional Yes Yes
Comments Plugin Discussion Pages Discussion Pages Threaded
Categories Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes No Yes
Page Redirection Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Patch Plugin Yes Optional
Structured Data Plugin Plugin No Yes
LinksDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
CamelCase Optional No Yes Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Yes Plugin
SisterWiki No No Yes Plugin
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes No Yes Plugin
Page Redirects Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Syntax FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
HTML Tags Optional Some Some All
Math formulas Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin
Tables simple simple + complex complex simple + complex
CREOLE support Plugin No Yes No
Markdown Support Plugin No No No
Textile Support Plugin No No Plugin
BBCode Support Plugin No No No
Emoticon Images Yes Optional Yes Yes
Syntax Highlighting Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Footnotes Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Quoting Yes No No Yes
Internal Comments Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Plugin Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No No No Yes
Scripting Optional, PHP Optional plugins, see comment ----------------> TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Plugin No Yes
UsabilityDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Section Editing Yes Yes No Plugin
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit No Optional Yes Plugin
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Access Keys Yes Yes Optional Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes Yes
StatisticsDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Plugin Yes Yes No
Orphaned Pages Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Most/Least Popular No Yes Yes Yes
Recent Visitors No Plugin No No
Analysis Plugin Optional Yes Yes
OutputDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print View
Mobile Friendly No No Yes Plugin
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes No Yes
Abbreviations Yes No No Plugin
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Yes Yes
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
XML export No Yes Yes Plugin
PDF Export Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Media and FilesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Revisions No Yes No Yes
Embedded Flash Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Embedded Video Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin
Image Editing No No Yes Plugin
SVG Editing Plugin No Yes Plugin
MindMap Editing Plugin Plugin No Plugin
Media Search Filenames only Keywords Contents Contents
ExtrasDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin
Image Galleries Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin
Forums No Plugin No Plugin
Blogs Plugin No No Plugin
Ticket System No No No Plugin
Syntax ExamplesDokuWiki DetailsMediaWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsTWiki Details
Internal Link 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
[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]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
==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'''
'''strong emphasised'''
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
''italic''
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
 
`monospaced`
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<s>strikethrough</s>
 
--(strikethrough)--
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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 
 N/A
 
<center>Centered</center>
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
 N/A
 
: indented line
 
  indented text
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
  * 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 1.2
# 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
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
----
 
----
-----
------
 
---
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