TiddlyWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Version
5.1.21
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
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
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki 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 MoinMoin TWiki 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 MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Usability TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MoinMoin TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
= 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
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
 
*bold*

__bold__
Italics Format 
//italic//
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
 
_italic_
 
''italics''
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
`monospaced`
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format 
--strikethrough--
 
--(strikethrough)--
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
 
^superscript^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format 
~~subscript~~
 
,,subscript,,
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
 
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
indented text
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* 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
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. 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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