DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Zim

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
0.56
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Private users, small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
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
None
Other Requirements
None
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin Zim
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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
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 =====
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<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}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
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not implemented
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