MoinMoin vs. TracWiki vs. SubWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.9.11
0.11.5
0.1-dev
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
no official
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Edgewall Software
Greg Stein
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Modified BSD license
Academic Free License
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Python
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Alpha
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Software development teams
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
A common browser
Datastorage MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
0
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
141
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, Javanese, 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
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
none
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
None
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
No
Extras MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin TracWiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
N/A
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospaced}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike-through~~
N/A
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
N/A
~~subscript~~
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
N/A
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
term::
definition
N/A
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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