wxWikiServer vs. Hatta vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Instiki vs. Foswiki

General Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Version
1.5.11c
1.6.6
5.1.21
1.9.11
0.30.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Radomir Dopieralski
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL v2
BSD
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
C++
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
general, education
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
None
Mercurial
A common browser
None
Ruby 2.0-2.6
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
n/a
optional extensions available
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
97 ⭐
Common Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Flat
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Links wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
no
JavaScript
JavaScript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
None
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Usability wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki MoinMoin Instiki Foswiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[another site](http://example.com)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//italic//
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_, *italic*
_italic_
Underline Format
n/a
__underline__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospaced`
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
n/a
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
n/a
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
] centred text
n/a
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indented text
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
; term
: description
term:: definition
term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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