Drupal Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Version
8.26
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.3.33
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (10 days ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-21 (9 days ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Software development teams
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Any with PHP support
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.
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
none
None
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Yes
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.
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Links Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Widgets
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Usability Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[[Image:wiki.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
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
: indented line
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term : definition
term:: definition
: term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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