PodWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TracWiki

General Features PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Version
0.9.1
1.9.11
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Software development teams
System Requirements PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Operating System
Unix
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
builtin
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Unknown
Links PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Perl
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Optional
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras PodWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PodWiki MoinMoin 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]]
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.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
I<italics>
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
via html only
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
`monospaced`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
via html only
--(strikethrough)--
~~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(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
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

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

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
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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