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General FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Version 2008-05-05 1.7.1 2.2.0
Last Release Date 2008-05-05 2008-07-20 2007-01-22
Author Andreas Gohr moinmo.in Patrick R. Michaud
URL www.dokuwiki.org moinmo.in www.pmwiki.org
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes
License GPL 2 GPL GPL2
Programming Language PHP Python PHP
Data Storage Files Files Files
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience private, small to medium companies Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) All
System RequirementsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Operating System UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access No No No
Webserver Apache, IIS, Lighttp, anything with PHP support Standalone, WSGI, Apache (mod_wsgi, CGI, FastCGI), Lighttpd, Twisted, IIS, and others Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements   None none
DatastorageDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Text Files Yes Yes Yes
MySQL No No Plugin
PostgreSQL No No No
Oracle No No No
SQLite No No No
BerkeleyDB No No No
RCS No No No
Other None No Can provide custom data backends
Security/Anti-SpamDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available)
Host Blocking Plugin Yes Optional
Mail Encryption Optional Optional Plugin
nofollow Optional No Yes
Blacklist Optional Yes Optional
CAPTCHA Plugin Optional Plugin
Delayed Indexing Optional No No
Development/SupportDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 12 listed Yes, 4 listed Yes, 5 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository dev.splitbrain.org see moinmo.in svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest
Issue Tracker bugs.splitbrain.org see moinmo.in www.pmwiki.org
Mailing List www.freelists.org see moinmo.in www.pmichaud.com
Support Forum forum.dokuwiki.org see moinmo.in www.pmichaud.com
IRC Channel www.dokuwiki.org see moinmo.in #pmwiki on irc.freenode.net
Common FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes Yes
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes  
Special FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Yes  
Interface Languages 43 languages
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
  28 languages
Catalan, , Danish, English, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Breton, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Sinhalese, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Tamil, Vietnamese
Email notification Optional Yes Optional
Comments Plugin Discussion Pages Plugin
Categories Plugin Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes No Yes
Page Redirection Plugin Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Patch Yes  
Structured Data Plugin No  
LinksDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
CamelCase Optional Yes Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki No Yes No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirects Plugin Yes  
Syntax FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
HTML Tags Optional Some Plugin
Math formulas Plugin Plugin Plugin
Tables simple complex simple + complex
CREOLE support Plugin Yes Optional
Markdown Support Plugin No Plugin
Textile Support Plugin No No
BBCode Support Plugin No No
Emoticon Images Yes Yes Plugin
Syntax Highlighting Yes Yes Plugin
Footnotes Yes Yes Plugin
Quoting Yes No Plugin
Internal Comments Plugin Yes Yes
Custom styles No Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No No Yes
Scripting Optional, PHP plugins, see comment ----------------> Plugin
Content Includes Plugin Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes No Plugin
UsabilityDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Section Editing Yes No Plugin
Page Templates   Yes  
Double-Click Edit No Yes Plugin
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin Yes Plugin
Access Keys Yes Optional Yes
Auto Signature Yes Yes Yes
StatisticsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Plugin Yes Optional
Orphaned Pages Plugin Yes Optional
Most/Least Popular No Yes No
Recent Visitors No No Plugin
Analysis Plugin Yes Plugin
OutputDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsPmWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes