MoinMoin vs. DokuWiki vs. ProWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wicked

General Features MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Version
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Andreas Gohr
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
personal, small to medium companies
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
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
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any
Other Requirements
None
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
Common Features MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
No
Special Features MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Links MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
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
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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