Confluence vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
5.2
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
Author
Atlassian
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
Hosting Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Links Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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