Wala Wiki vs. MoinMoin vs. DokuWiki vs. ProWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Version
1.1.7
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2024-03-04 (2 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Andreas Gohr
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
personal, small to medium companies
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
None
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
diffs
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
# 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
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= headline =
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italicized''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
monospaced.
`monospaced`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>text</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>text</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
indented text
N/A
: indented line
:: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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