JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.9.11
2.3.13
2.5.4
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
Writable data directory
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
110 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
8486 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! 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
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
%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
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# 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
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-----
------
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
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