DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MoinMoin vs. GWiki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.9.11
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (25 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
none
None
None
Java 1.8+
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
MariaDB
No
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
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 MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
1
English
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin GWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.com]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! 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
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
`monospaced`
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
--(strikethrough)--
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
~Subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
indented text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
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 2
-- Sub Item
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 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
term:: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
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