GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.4.0
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
1.9.11
2.5.4
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Java
Perl
Python
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
corporate and special interest groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
None
none
A common browser
Datastorage GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
110 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
8486 ⭐
Common Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
1
English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* 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
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
: term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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