alphawiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Version
v.20160608
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2016-08-06 (9 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (9 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
marty alain
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
probably every OS
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
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 alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Links alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Yes
Usability alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki MoinMoin TWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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