| General Features | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0
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1.9.11
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2.1.8
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2.3.33
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6.1.25
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| Last Release Date |
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
|
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
|
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
|
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
|
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
|
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
|
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
|
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
|
| Author |
Clifford Adams
|
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
|
Foswiki Community
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
|
GPL
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GPL2+
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Python
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
All
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
|
| System Requirements | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, probably anything with CGI 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.
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
|
| Datastorage | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
No
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
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.
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
97 ⭐
|
N/A
|
32 ⭐
|
| Common Features | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| 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 | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
All
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
None
|
plugins, see comment ---------------->
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Output | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | UseMod | MoinMoin | Foswiki | PmWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
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]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
|
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://...]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| 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''' '''strong emphasised''' |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
`monospaced` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
N/A |
--(strikethrough)-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
vvsubscriptvv |
| Images |
http://url.com/pic.gif |
{{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 |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
N/A |
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 |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
: indented |
indented text |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
one two |
| 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 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
# 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 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
;Term:Definition |
term:: definition |
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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---- |
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| remove UseMod | remove MoinMoin | remove Foswiki | remove PmWiki | remove WackoWiki |