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Feature Comparison
| General Features | MediaWiki  | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.11.1 |
 1.7.1 |
phpwiki-1.3.12p2 |
2.2.0 |
TWiki 4.2.2 |
| Last Release Date |
2008-01-24 |
2008-07-20 |
2006-03-07 |
2007-01-22 |
2008-08-11 |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
moinmo.in |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
moinmo.in |
phpwiki.sourceforge.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL2 |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
Python |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Files, DB, RCS |
Files |
Files, RCS |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
$0, and subscriptions for support |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) |
|
All |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
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 |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Standalone, WSGI, Apache (mod_wsgi, CGI, FastCGI), Lighttpd, Twisted, IIS, and others |
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 |
| Other Requirements |
none |
None |
none |
none |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
 Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Oracle |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Other |
No |
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 |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
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 |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| nofollow |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 22 listed |
Yes, 4 listed |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 5 listed |
Yes, 22 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
see moinmo.in |
sf.net |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
twiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
see moinmo.in |
sf.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
twiki.org |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
see moinmo.in |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
twiki.org |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
see moinmo.in |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
twiki.org |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
#wiki |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
twiki.org |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
No |
| Interface Languages |
137 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, 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 |
|
9 languages Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish |
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 |
16 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Yes |
|
|
Optional |
| Structured Data |
|
No |
|
|
Yes |
| Links | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| SisterWiki |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |