DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. Zim

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.9
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.56
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
Private users, small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
None
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
various opt. helpers
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
No
Links DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
No
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
_{sub}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
-----
------
----
not implemented
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