MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Zwiki

General Features MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Version
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
1.9.11
0.61
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Zope
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Development/Support MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Links MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Optional
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-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'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* 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 1.2
# 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 : definition
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
-----
------
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