DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
2.3.33
1.9.11
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-01 (25 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
None
None
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
No
No
No
No
Yes
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki PmWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
===underline===
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
term:: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
-----
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