TWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. ButorWiki

General Features TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.9.11
2.2.1
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-03-08 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2007-07-30 (16 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Aiman Sawan
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
SMB
System Requirements TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any webserver
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Tomcat 4.1 +
Datastorage TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
Links TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Internal Macros
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Unknown
Usability TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Output TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki MoinMoin ButorWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
<a href="..."></a>
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
<a href="..."></a>
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
<b>Bold</b>
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
<i>Italics</i>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>Underline</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* 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
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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