Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
0.11.5
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (27 days ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Edgewall Software
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL 2
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Software development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
None
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
None
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
No
None
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4600 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
Optional, PHP
yes, using Python
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= 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**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike-through~~
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
N/A
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* 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 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- 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
Plugin
term::
definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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