UseMod vs. TWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki

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

[[target|label|params]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
: indented line
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 1.2
* Item 2
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 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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