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Feature Comparison

General FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Version 2012-01-25 "Angua" 1.9.3 phpwiki-1.3.14 2.2.19 TWiki 5.1.1 1.3.1
Last Release Date 2012-01-25 2010-06-27 2007-07-01 2010-11-10 2012-01-17 2011-03-31
Author Andreas Gohr moinmo.in Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau Patrick R. Michaud Peter Thoeny, TWiki community Wikka Development Team
URL www.dokuwiki.org moinmo.in phpwiki.sourceforge.net www.pmwiki.org twiki.org and www.twiki.net wikkawiki.org
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL 2 GPL GPL GPL2 GPL GPL
Programming Language PHP Python PHP PHP Perl, JavaScript PHP
Data Storage Files Files Files, DB, RCS Files Files, RCS Database
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 0 community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience private, small to medium companies Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) Any All Large enterprise; small to medium businesses Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System RequirementsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Operating System Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others Linux, Windows, OS-X and other any (platform-independent)
Root Access No No No No No No
Webserver Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements   None various opt. helpers none RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies mod_rewrite (optional)
DatastorageDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Text Files Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
MySQL No No Yes Plugin No Yes
PostgreSQL No No Yes No No No
Oracle No No Yes No No No
SQLite No No Yes Plugin No No
BerkeleyDB No No Yes No No No
RCS No No Yes No Yes No
Other None No gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) Can provide custom data backends RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage No
Security/Anti-SpamDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking Plugin Yes No Optional Plugin Yes
Mail Encryption Optional Optional No Plugin Yes No
nofollow Optional No Yes Yes Plugin Yes
Blacklist Optional Yes Yes Optional Plugin Yes
CAPTCHA Plugin Optional Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Delayed Indexing Optional No No No Plugin No
Development/SupportDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 32 listed Yes, 13 listed Yes, 2 listed Yes, 7 listed Yes, 33 listed No
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository github.com see moinmo.in sf.net svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest twiki.org wush.net
Issue Tracker bugs.splitbrain.org see moinmo.in sf.net www.pmwiki.org twiki.org wush.net
Mailing List www.freelists.org see moinmo.in sf.net www.pmichaud.com twiki.org wikkawiki.org
Support Forum forum.dokuwiki.org see moinmo.in sf.net www.pmichaud.com twiki.org (support requests are handled via mailing list)
IRC Channel www.dokuwiki.org see moinmo.in #phpwiki #pmwiki on irc.freenode.net twiki.org wikkawiki.org
Common FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes 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
Page Index Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Special FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes No   No Yes
Interface Languages 55 languages
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, 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, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional		   9 languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional		 27 languages
Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese		 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 Yes Yes Optional Yes Patch
Comments Plugin Discussion Pages Plugin Plugin Threaded Flat
Categories Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes No No Yes Yes No
Page Redirection Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Conflict Handling Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Page Locking
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Patch Yes Yes Yes Optional No
Structured Data Plugin No Patch Yes Yes Plugin
LinksDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
CamelCase Optional Yes Yes Optional Yes Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Patch
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
SisterWiki No Yes No No Plugin No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin No
Page Redirects Plugin Yes Yes Yes Plugin Patch
Syntax FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
HTML Tags Optional Some Some Plugin All Some
Math formulas Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Tables simple complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support Plugin Yes No Optional No No
Markdown Support Plugin No No Plugin No No
Textile Support Plugin No No No Plugin No
BBCode Support Plugin No No No No No
Emoticon Images Yes Yes No Plugin Yes No
Syntax Highlighting Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes
Footnotes Yes Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Quoting Yes No Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Internal Comments Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags Plugin No No Yes Yes No
Scripting Optional, PHP plugins, see comment ----------------> plugins, templates, PHP Plugin TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes No Yes Plugin Yes Yes
UsabilityDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Section Editing Yes No No Plugin Plugin No
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit Plugin Yes Optional Plugin Plugin Yes
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Yes Patch Plugin Yes Plugin
Access Keys Yes Optional Yes Yes Yes Patch
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Patch
StatisticsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Plugin Yes Yes Optional No Yes
Orphaned Pages Plugin Yes Yes Optional Plugin Yes
Most/Least Popular No Yes Yes No Yes Patch
Recent Visitors No No Yes Plugin Plugin Patch
Analysis Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
OutputDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print View Print View Print CSS
Mobile Friendly Plugin Yes No Plugin Plugin  
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes No No Yes Yes Plugin
Abbreviations Yes No No Plugin Plugin Patch
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Patch
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
XML export No Yes No Plugin Plugin Patch
PDF Export Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin No
Media and FilesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Optional Yes Yes
Media Revisions Yes No Yes Optional Yes No
Embedded Flash Yes Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Yes
Embedded Video Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Plugin No
Image Editing No Yes No Plugin Plugin No
SVG Editing Plugin Yes No Plugin Plugin No
MindMap Editing Plugin No No   Plugin Yes
Media Search Filenames only Contents No No Contents No
ExtrasDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Galleries Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Forums No No Yes Plugin Plugin No
Blogs Plugin No Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Ticket System Plugin No No Plugin Plugin No
Syntax ExamplesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki DetailsTWiki DetailsWikkaWiki Details
Internal Link 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[page name #anchor]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced This is a link]]
[[forced 日本語]]
External Link 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file

http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
'''bold'''
 
*bold*

**bold**
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
''italic''
 
_italic_
 
//italic//
Underline Format 
__underlined__
 
__underline__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
{+underlined+}
 
<u>underline</u>
 
__underlined__
Monospace Format 
''monospace''
 
`monospaced`
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



@@monospace@@
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
--(strikethrough)--
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
{-strikethrough-}
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
'^superscript^'
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
'_subscript_'
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
 
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
  external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
  view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
  view and link to another image

http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
 
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text 
 Plugin
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation 
 N/A
 
  indented text
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
   paragraph
     and another level 

-> indented text
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
    indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists 
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
 
 * Item 1
  * Item 1.1
 * Item 2
 
* list
  or
- list
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
   * Item 1
      * Item 1.1
   * Item 2
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
 
# list
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
   1. Item 1
      a. Item 1.a
   1. Item 2
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists 
 Plugin
 
 term:: definition
 
Term:<def>
  def
 
: term : definition
 
   $ Term: Definition
 
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule 
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