TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
None
Datastorage TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Links TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
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: Definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
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----
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