Oddmuse vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Version
2.3.13
1.9.11
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-03-25 (22 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
No
Yes
Media and Files Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Oddmuse MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
no example known
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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