MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Hatta vs. Confluence

General Features MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Version
1.32.2
1.9.11
1.6.6
5.2
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Radomir Dopieralski
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
None
Mercurial
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
No
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
n/a
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
140
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, Brazilian 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
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Links MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
HTML Tags
Some
Some
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Usability MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MoinMoin Hatta Confluence
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
n/a
+underline+
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
{{{verbatim}}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
n/a
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
n/a
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
n/a
~subscript~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
n/a
Text Indentation
: indented line
indented text
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
; term : definition
term:: definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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