PodWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. bLADE Wiki vs. TracWiki

General Features PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Version
0.9.1
1.9.11
3.4.9
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Dale Lane
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
N/A
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Perl
Python
C#
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Software development teams
System Requirements PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Operating System
Unix
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Windows, Windows Mobile
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
N/A
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
None
.NET 2 Framework
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
builtin
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
No
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
0
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
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
Perl
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Usability PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
No
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Unknown
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[Link to a page]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.linkme.com]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
+Heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold text*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
I<italics>
''italic''
''emphasised''
=italic text=
''italic''
Underline Format
via html only
__underline__
_underlined text_
__underline__
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
`monospaced`
[|code sample|]
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
via html only
--(strikethrough)--
-strikethrough text-
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
via html only
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via html only
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
G<logo.png>
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[$image.jpg$]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
indented text
> blockquote text
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- bulleted
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# numbered
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
via html only
term:: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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