DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. LionWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.1
5.1.21
3.2.4
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Adam Živnéř
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
BSD
GPL v2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
advanced users, minimalists
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any
All PHP supported
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
None
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4577 ⭐
56 ⭐
8562 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
JavaScript (plugin)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
'__underline__'
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
'--strikethrough--'
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[path_to_img.jpg]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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