MoinMoin vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Version
1.9.11
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
TWiki-6.1.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Tiki Software Community Association
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Works on standard shared hosting
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
None
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^superscript^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
indented text
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
term:: definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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