PukiWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.5.1
0.11.5
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Edgewall Software
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Software development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
OS independent
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, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
None
Datastorage PukiWiki 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
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
No
Links PukiWiki 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
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
yes, using Python
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Usability PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Patch
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
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 PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
Optional
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= 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
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
N/A
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
~~strike-through~~
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
N/A
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
N/A
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[[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
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
term::
definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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