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

General Features MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.32.2
1.9.11
5.1.21
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Not required (optional backends available)
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
None
A common browser
None
Datastorage MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[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]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
===underline===
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
{{{monospaced}}}
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
[[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]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
::centered text::
Text Indentation
: indented line
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
term:: definition
; term
: description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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