MoinMoin vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Version
1.9.11
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
1.6.6
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL v2
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free!
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
None
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
A common browser
Datastorage MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
No
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
8657 ⭐
Common Features MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Links MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Features MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Output MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_
_italic_
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
n/a
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
~~subscript~~
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
indented text
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
n/a
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
-----
------
-------
---
----
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