MoasdaWiki vs. TWiki vs. GWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Version
3.7.1
TWiki-6.1.0
2.4.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2023-12-31 (4 months ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2024-01-01 (4 months ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Roger Rene Kommer
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
N/A
Free
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
System Requirements MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
Datastorage MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Google Datastore
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
None yet
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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133 ⭐
Common Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
German, English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Yes
Output MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Internal Link]]s
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Headline
Bold Format
''bold''
*bold*
*Bold Format*
**bold text**
Italics Format
##italic##
_italic_
_Italic format_
_italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
sometext~subscript~
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
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