PukiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.5.1
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
OS independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Links PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Usability PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file

http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
 
*bold*

__bold__
Italics Format 
'''italic'''
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
 
_italic_
 
''italics''
Underline Format 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format 
N/A
 
`monospaced`
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format 
%%strikethrough%%
 
--(strikethrough)--
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format 
N/A
 
^superscript^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format 
N/A
 
,,subscript,,
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
 
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
indented text
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists 
:term|definition
 
term:: definition
 
$ Term: Definition
 
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule 
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