giewiki vs. MoinMoin vs. SubWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick vs. Zwiki

General Features giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Version
1.13.1
1.9.11
0.1-dev
5.1.21
0.11.5
0.12.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2011-07-20 (12 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
no official
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2010-06-20 (13 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2010-08-24 (13 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Greg Stein
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
legolas558
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
GPL
Academic Free License
BSD
Modified BSD license
GPLv2
GPLv2
Programming Language
Python
Python
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
other
Files
RCS
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
Advanced End Users
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent (Browser Application)
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Zope
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
None
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Other
App Engine
No
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Supports per-page AES encryption
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Development/Support giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
2
English, Italian
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
None
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
none
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
None
JavaScript
yes, using Python
JavaScript
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Usability giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Statistics giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Output giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki MoinMoin SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[WoaS test page]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
!Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
''Bald''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold text*
Italics Format
//Italy//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
/italics text/
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
N/A
__underline__
__underline__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
`monospaced`
{{monospaced}}
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--(strikethrough)--
N/A
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^superscript^
N/A
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
,,subscript,,
N/A
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
N/A
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
* 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 1
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
; term
: description
term:: definition
N/A
; term
: description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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