MoinMoin vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TWiki

General Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Version
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.1.21
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
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)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years 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)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years 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
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
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
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
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
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
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)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
None
none
A common browser
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
None
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki TWiki
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]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][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]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][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
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
''italics''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
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]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: description
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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