TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
2.1.11
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Output TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse Foswiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.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
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ 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*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
-----
------
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