Git-Wiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TracWiki

General Features Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Version
1.0
1.9.11
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Ruby
Python
Python
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Software development teams
System Requirements Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Operating System
*nix
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Ruby
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
Git
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
1
English
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Links Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
term:: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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