Confluence vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TracWiki

General Features Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Version
5.2
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.5.9
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
Hosting Features Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
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 MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
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. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
None
none
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
No
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence MediaWiki MoinMoin PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
Text Indentation
: indented line
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
; term : definition
term:: definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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