DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
various opt. helpers
none
None
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
===underline===
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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