TiddlyWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Version
5.1.21
2.5.8
1.32.2
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any 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
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
none
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8574 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
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, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
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 : definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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