PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.5.8
5.1.21
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-09 (24 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-09 (24 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
all
System Requirements PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
None
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8574 ⭐
N/A
N/A
113 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Links PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Usability PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ 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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term
: description
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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