TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. JSPWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Version
5.1.21
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
all
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MoinMoin JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Output TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
term:: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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