MoinMoin vs. Sputnik vs. PukiWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Version
1.9.11
8.08.13
1.5.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Yuri Takhteyev
PukiWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MIT/X
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPLv2
Programming Language
Python
Lua
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Small teams or private users
One theme, one PukiWiki
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
OS independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
None
gcc or Lua
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
Other
No
Git
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki 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
Yes
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
No
Namespaces
No
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Links MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Features MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Lua, JavaScript
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Patch
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Sputnik PukiWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[Sputnik]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
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 =====
# Sputnik
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
N/A
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
N/A
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
N/A
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
indented text
> Sputnik
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Sputnik
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Sputnik
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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