MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.9.11
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.8
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
all
System Requirements MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
None
none
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Development/Support MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
indented text
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* 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
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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
Definition Lists
term:: definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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