MoinMoin vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Version
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.1.21
8.26
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Commercial
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Different licences
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise
Hosting Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
None
none
A common browser
Datastorage MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
optional extensions available
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
Widgets
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Drupal Wiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: description
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
----
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----
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(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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