Friki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.1.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2004-05-13 (19 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Links Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Usability Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki DokuWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
====== 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
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
monospace
''monospace''
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:        indented
N/A
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* 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
1. first
1. second
- 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
title:        description
Plugin
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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