TiddlyWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Version
5.1.21
1.9.11
1.32.2
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
A common browser
None
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
# 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
97 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
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 MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.org The title]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indented text
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
term:: definition
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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