Foswiki vs. PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.1.11
1.5.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
PukiWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
One theme, one PukiWiki
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
None
Datastorage Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
4677 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Links Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki PukiWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
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 6
 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format 
*bold*
 
''bold''
 
**bold**
 
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format 
_italic_
 
'''italic'''
 
//italics//
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format 
<u>underline</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underlined__
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
 
N/A
 
''monospace''
 
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
%%strikethrough%%
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
N/A
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
N/A
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
Images 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
Plugin
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
N/A
 
N/A
 
indented text
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 2
Numbered Lists 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
$ Term: Definition
 
:term|definition
 
Plugin
 
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule 
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