DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Zim

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.4
0.56
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
Any
All
Private users, small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
None
Other Requirements
None
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
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.
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Some
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
_{sub}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ 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
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
<?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
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-----
------
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
not implemented
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