DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.13
2.3.33
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
None
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
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
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, 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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse PmWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
====== 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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
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