DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
2.1.8
2.3.33
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
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.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
# 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
97 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
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 MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
1
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
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
No
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== 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
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| 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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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