MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.6
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-02-08 (19 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
none
Datastorage MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
# 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
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
140
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, 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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin TWiki PmWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
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 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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