MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Version
1.9.11
2.1.11
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
None
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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4694 ⭐
Common Features MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
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 MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Foswiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
Text Indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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