UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki

General Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
2.1.8
2.3.33
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)
2024-04-20 (15 days 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 (6 months ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
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
All
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
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
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
None
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
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
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Links UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin Foswiki PmWiki
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
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"}%
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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