DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki

General Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
2.1.8
1.9.11
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
System Requirements DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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.
Other Requirements
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
none
Datastorage DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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.
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
@@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,,
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{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
Aligning Text
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
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
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# 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
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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