TracWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. JSPWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
0.11.5
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.11.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Apache Software Foundation
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
all
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
A common browser
Datastorage TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
0
None
No
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
141
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, Javanese, 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
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
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Links TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Usability TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Output TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[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]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
====== 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
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~~subscript~~
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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'}]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%%(text-align: right) text %%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* 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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
- 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
Plugin
; term : definition
term:: definition
;term:definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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