MoinMoin vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
2.1.8
1.32.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
personal, small to medium companies
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
None
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
A common browser
Datastorage MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== 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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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