Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
1.32.2
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
A common browser
none
None
Datastorage Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== 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 =====
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
no example known
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
; term
: description
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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