UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Foswiki

General Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
None
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
1
English
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Links UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
====== 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
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- 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
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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