PBwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Version
N/A
1.32.2
1.9.11
5.1.21
Last Release Date
N/A
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Operating System
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
None
A common browser
Datastorage PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
No
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki MediaWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! 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 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Indented block
: indented line
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term : definition
term:: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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