GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
1.9.11
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
A common browser
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Usability GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* 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
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
;term:definition
term:: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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