DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. Sputnik vs. PageWork vs. MoinMoin

General Features DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
8.08.13
0.4.8
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Yuri Takhteyev
Pitt Murmann
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
MIT/X
GPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Lua
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small teams or private users
Medium-sized sites
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Any
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
gcc or Lua
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
None
Datastorage DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Git
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Proprietary
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Lua, JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TWiki Sputnik PageWork MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Sputnik]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Sputnik
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> Sputnik
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Sputnik
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* 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
1. Sputnik
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
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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