MoinMoin vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki vs. TWiki

General Features MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Version
1.9.11
5.1.21
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
None
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
141
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, Javanese, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin TiddlyWiki TracWiki TWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* 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
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
; term
: description
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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