DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
1.9.11
2.5.9
TWiki-6.1.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
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+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any (platform-independent)
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. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
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
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
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 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</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}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
term:: definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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