DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse vs. PukiWiki

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
2.3.13
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
OS independent
Root Access
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
Writable data directory
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
No
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
N/A
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
- 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
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Depending on plugins:
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