MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MoinMoin vs. Zim

General Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Version
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.9.11
0.56
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (25 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Private users, small teams
System Requirements MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
None
Other Requirements
none
None
None
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
140
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Links MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, see comment ---------------->
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Usability MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin Zim
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
`monospaced`
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
not implemented
Text Indentation
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
indented text
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;term:definition
term:: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
-----
------
not implemented
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