MoasdaWiki vs. TWiki vs. GWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Version
3.7.1
TWiki-6.1.0
2.4.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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)
2020-07-19 (3 years 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)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Roger Rene Kommer
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
MPL-2.0
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
N/A
Free
Free!
0
Development status
Mature
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
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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 DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Google Datastore
n/a
None
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
None yet
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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133 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
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 :-)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Output MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media and Files MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki
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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
*bold*
*Bold Format*
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
_italic_
_Italic format_
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
`code text`
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
~~strikethough text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
Plugin
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
> Blockquote
N/A
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
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
-------
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