Foswiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.1.8
1.9.11
2.3.13
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Writable data directory
A common browser
Datastorage Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
97 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
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
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki MoinMoin Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
---
----
-----
------
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
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