PmWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.3.33
0.11.5
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Software development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
None
Datastorage PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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.
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Links PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Usability PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# 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::
definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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