MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.9.11
2.1.11
2.7.4
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2026-07-31 (14 days ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2026-07-31 (14 days ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
System Requirements MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
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
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
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, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
4694 ⭐
89 ⭐
Common Features MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
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
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media and Files MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
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
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[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"}%
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
no example known
Text Indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
* one
** two
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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
-----
------
---
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
remove MoinMoin remove Foswiki remove PmWiki remove DokuWiki remove Oddmuse