TracWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Version
0.11.5
2.11.0
2.7.6
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-09-18 (4 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-09-18 (4 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
all
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
Datastorage TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
0
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
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 TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Usability TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* 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 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
;term:definition
: term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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