DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TracWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.9.11
2.5.9
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any (platform-independent)
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
None
none
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
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
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Chat
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
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
::centered text::
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
(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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
- 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
(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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