TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MoinMoin

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Version
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
16.2.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2024-04-01 (25 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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. :)
Hosting Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Works on standard shared hosting
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
None
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Text Files
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, 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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
((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]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
-= Titlebar =-
! 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'''
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strike--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered text::
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
leading spaces, if activated.
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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