MoinMoin vs. TracWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick vs. Zwiki

General Features MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Version
1.9.11
0.11.5
0.12.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Edgewall Software
legolas558
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPLv2
GPLv2
Programming Language
Python
Python
JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Software development teams
Advanced End Users
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent (Browser Application)
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Zope
Other Requirements
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
No
Unknown
Other
No
0
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Supports per-page AES encryption
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
Development/Support MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
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 TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
141
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, Javanese, 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
2
English, Italian
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
JavaScript
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Output MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[WoaS test page]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
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 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold text*
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
/italics text/
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
term:: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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