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

General Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Version
1.1.7
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.0.045
TWiki-6.1.0
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (1 month 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)
2017-09-20 (6 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)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Andreas Gohr
Helmut Leitner
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Python
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
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 Wicked
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
Any
Root Access
No
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
Any
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
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
diffs
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
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
25 different backends
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
Common Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Links Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
None
Some
Optional
Some
All
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki MoinMoin DokuWiki ProWiki TWiki Wicked
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]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
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]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
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
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italicized''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
monospaced.
`monospaced`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
[[strike]strikethrough text]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
@@--- strikethrough @@
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
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
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
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
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
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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