DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Zwiki

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
2.3.33
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.61
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (26 days ago)
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-21 (25 days ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
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. :)
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
any
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, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Zope
Other Requirements
None
none
None
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
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: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
1
English
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
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
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
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* 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
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:: definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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