Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki

General Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Version
2.3.13
5.1.21
6.2.1
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Any
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
8554 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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