MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Zwiki

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

[[target|label|params]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
= 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 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
indented text
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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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