Confluence vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki

General Features Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Version
5.2
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
Hosting Features Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
None
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Patch
Links Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence MoinMoin PhpWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

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


Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{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
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-----
------
----
remove Confluence remove MoinMoin remove PhpWiki