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

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.9.11
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
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 MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
None
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
No
MariaDB
0
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki 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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki 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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
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
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
((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]
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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
-= 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
---++++++ Level 6
====== 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__
===underline===
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{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
%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
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
leading spaces, if activated.
<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 1
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
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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