MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Version
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.3.33
5.1.21
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (7 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-21 (6 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
System Requirements MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
none
None
none
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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 MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
1
English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Extras MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

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