JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Version
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
1.9.11
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
A common browser
Datastorage JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
No
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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 JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
140
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, 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
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki 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
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Plugin
; term : definition
term:: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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