DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. UseMod vs. TWiki

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
1.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Clifford Adams
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
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
Yes
Other
None
No
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin UseMod TWiki
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]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:: definition
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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