DokuWiki vs. GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.4.0
2.11.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.33
1.5.1
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-20 (9 days ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (8 days ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
various opt. helpers
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
A common browser
Datastorage DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
4 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
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
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
*Bold Format*
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
''bold''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
_Italic format_
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
N/A
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
~~subscript~~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* 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
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# 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
Definition Lists
Plugin
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
:term|definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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