GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zim

General Features GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Version
2.4.0
2.11.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.33
1.5.1
5.1.21
0.56
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Individuals, private, small groups
Private users, small teams
System Requirements GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
None
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
various opt. helpers
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
A common browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
optional extensions available
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
4
German, English, French, Japanese
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
No
Links GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Features GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[http://example.com]
[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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
''bold''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
N/A
{{{monospaced}}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
~~subscript~~
_{sub}
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[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}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
not implemented
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
:term|definition
; term
: description
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
-----
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not implemented
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