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

General Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.1.21
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
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)
2023-11-15 (5 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)
2024-04-01 (28 days 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
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
LGPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
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
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
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)
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
None
none
A common browser
None
Datastorage MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# 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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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
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
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Yes
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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]]
((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://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://example.com]
or
[http://example.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
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
{SUB()}text{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]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
::centered text::
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
leading spaces, if activated.
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
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
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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