Instiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Version
0.30.0
5.1.21
2.1.8
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
7039 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
No
Links Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
None
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Instiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[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]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
#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 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
![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"}%
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
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
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* 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. 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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