UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (9 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (8 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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 UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
# 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
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
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 TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, 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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 ======
====== 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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
| 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
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
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