ErfurtWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.9.11
2.6.0
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
18.4.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2026-06-15 (4 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2026-06-16 (3 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
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. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
none
None
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
no
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor 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 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
optional or via css
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term:: definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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