PodWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MoinMoin

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

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

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
I<italics>
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
via html only
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
via html only
~~strike-through~~
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
via html only
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via html only
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
G<logo.png>
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
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 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

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