TiddlyWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Version
5.1.21
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
A common browser
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
8501 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Links TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki PhpWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link 
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
*bold*

'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
_italic_
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
<u>underline</u>
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format 
--strikethrough--
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
Subscript Format 
~~subscript~~
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
Images 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image

%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

indented text
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* list
or
- list
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
# list
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
; term
: description
 
Term:<def>
def
 
$ Term: Definition
 
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
----
 
---
 
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