Drupal Wiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Version
8.37
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (11 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
all
Any
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
116 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Widgets
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki JSPWiki PhpWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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