| General Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.8
|
1.32.2
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1.9.11
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5.1.21
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
|
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
Python
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any with PHP support
|
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
None
|
A common browser
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
|
No
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
|
optional extensions available
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
97 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
7039 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| 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 | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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 |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
plugins, see comment ---------------->
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | MediaWiki | MoinMoin | TiddlyWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]] [[target|label|params]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://google.de/ or [[http://google.de/ | Google]] or file://///server/share/file |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' '''strong emphasised''' |
''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`monospaced` |
{{{monospaced}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--(strikethrough)-- |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
~~subscript~~ |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}} |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
only in tables: ||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right || |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
indented text |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
term:: definition |
; term : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove Foswiki | remove MediaWiki | remove MoinMoin | remove TiddlyWiki |