MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Zwiki

General Features MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Version
1.9.11
2.5.3
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.61
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2025-11-08 (13 days ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2025-11-08 (13 days ago)
2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Zope
Other Requirements
None
none
None
Datastorage MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
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 PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
Text Indentation
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* 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
Numbered Lists
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
Definition Lists
term:: definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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