DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.5.8
1.9.11
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (9 days ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
None
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
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
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
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
Headlines
====== 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 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{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)
Aligning Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* 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
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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