MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
5.1.21
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
LGPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Individuals, private, small groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
none
none
None
A common browser
None
Datastorage MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! 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''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
:indent

> quote

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