UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Version
1.0
2.3.32
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.67
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2024-03-23 (24 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2024-03-24 (23 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Anyone
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
none
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
140
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, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Links UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Output UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples UseMod PmWiki MediaWiki TWiki ikiwiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[internal]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[link text](http://example.org)
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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* 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 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# 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 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
---
***
___
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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