alphawiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TiddlyWiki vs. GWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Version
v.20160608
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
5.1.21
2.4.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
Author
marty alain
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Roger Rene Kommer
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Free
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Not required (optional backends available)
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
None
A common browser
Java 1.8+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
None
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Google Datastore
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
Internal and external with adapter
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
4 ⭐
97 ⭐
Common Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
2
German, English
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Statistics alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki GWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.com]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
''bold''
*Bold Format*
*bold*
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
_Italic format_
_italic_
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
+Unterlined+
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
''monospace''
`monospaced`
{{{monospaced}}}
{{Monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
-StrikeThrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
N/A
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Plugin
term:: definition
; term
: description
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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