PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.3
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-11-08 (19 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-11-08 (19 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
None
Datastorage PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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 PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
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.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
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 PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
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)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
| 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
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
----
-----
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