MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.9.11
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
None
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Output MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin MediaWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
indented text
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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