UseMod vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Version
1.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
1.9.11
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (17 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (16 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI 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
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
None
A common browser
Datastorage UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
No
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
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
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
# 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
N/A
N/A
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Common Features UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Links UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
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 ---------------->
JavaScript
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod TWiki PmWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
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]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
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
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
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 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
%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}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
N/A
| 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 ||
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* 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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
term:: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
-----
------
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