PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki

General Features PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Version
2.3.33
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.9.11
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
LGPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
None
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
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 PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Links PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Media and Files PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Chat
No
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Examples PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! 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 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
===underline===
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
indented text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: term : definition
;term:definition
term:: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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