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Feature Comparison
| General Features | MediaWiki  | MoinMoin |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
1.15.0 |
 1.8.4 |
| Last Release Date |
2009-06-10 |
2009-06-09 |
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
moinmo.in |
| URL |
www.mediawiki.org |
moinmo.in |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
GPL |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
Python |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) |
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support |
Standalone, WSGI, Apache (mod_wsgi, CGI, FastCGI), Lighttpd, Twisted, IIS, and others |
| Other Requirements |
none |
None |
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
|
No |
| SQLite |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
| Other |
No |
No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Yes |
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible |
| Host Blocking |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
| nofollow |
Optional |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 37 listed |
Yes, 10 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.wikimedia.org |
see moinmo.in |
| Issue Tracker |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
see moinmo.in |
| Mailing List |
lists.wikimedia.org |
see moinmo.in |
| Support Forum |
mwusers.com |
see moinmo.in |
| IRC Channel |
www.mediawiki.org |
see moinmo.in |
| Common Features | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
140 languages 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, 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 |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Discussion Pages |
Discussion Pages |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
No |
| Links | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| CamelCase |
No |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| HTML Tags |
Some |
Some |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Yes |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
| Scripting |
Optional |
plugins, see comment ----------------> |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
No |
| Usability | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
No |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Optional |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
| Analysis |
Optional |
Yes |
| Output | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
Yes |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
Yes |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
Keywords |
Contents |
| Extras | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
No |
| Blogs |
No |
No |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]] [[target|label|params]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://google.de/ or [[http://google.de/ | Google]] or file://///server/share/file |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' '''strong emphasised''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`monospaced` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--(strikethrough)-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
only in tables: ||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right || |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
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| Last updated | 2009-06-10 | 2009-06-14 |
