TWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. JSPWiki

General Features TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.9.11
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
all
System Requirements TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Optional
Usability TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
-----
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