alphawiki vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Version
v.20160608
1.9.11
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
marty alain
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features alphawiki 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 alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage alphawiki 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
None
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 alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
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
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
Optional
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples alphawiki MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
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
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
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
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{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
{center I am centered}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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