DokuWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki

General Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-11-15 (6 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Tiki Software Community Association
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
None
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
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
MariaDB
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin 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
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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
1
English
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin TWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
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://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
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 ==
-= Titlebar =-
! 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
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
===underline===
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
-+monospace+-
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strike--
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
::centered text::
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
leading spaces, if activated.
indented text
<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
# 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
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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