TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. MoinMoin

General Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Version
5.1.21
1.32.2
5.2
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
None
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Text Files
Optional
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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