PodWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Version
0.9.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2007-02-12 (17 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (17 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Unix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
builtin
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Links PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PodWiki DokuWiki TWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link 
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link 
L<http://www.daemon.de>
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines 
=head1 The Weather
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format 
B<bold>
 
**bold**
 
*bold*

'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format 
I<italics>
 
//italics//
 
_italic_
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format 
via html only
 
__underlined__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
put a space in front of monospaced text
 
''monospace''
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format 
via html only
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format 
via html only
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^superscript^
Subscript Format 
via html only
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
Images 
G<logo.png>
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text 
via stylesheet only
 
Plugin
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation 
via stylesheet only
 
N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

indented text
Bulleted Lists 
=over

=item* listitem

=back
 
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
via html only
 
Plugin
 
$ Term: Definition
 
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule 
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