UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TracWiki

General Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Software development teams
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
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 distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
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
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
# 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
N/A
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Usability UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
`monospaced`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,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}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
indented text
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 1
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
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
term:: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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