Hatta vs. Instiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.6.6
0.30.0
5.1.21
2.1.8
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
Ruby's
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Ruby on Rails
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Mercurial
Ruby 2.0-2.6
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
caching of content into database using plugins
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
478 ⭐
7039 ⭐
97 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
None
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media and Files Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Hatta Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! 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 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
n/a
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
`monospace`
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
n/a
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
n/a
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* 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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
term
: definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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