JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
5.1.21
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
A common browser
None
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
111 ⭐
N/A
8501 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
140
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, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! 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
''italics''
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
; term
: description
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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