DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. JSPWiki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.1.21
1.9.11
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
all
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospaced`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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 1.2
# 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
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: description
term:: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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