Confluence vs. WikkaWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Version
5.2
1.4.2
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Wikka Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
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 WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any (platform-independent)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Active Directory (patch)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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 WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Patch
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Patch
Yes
Statistics Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Patch
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Confluence WikkaWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italic//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospaced##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
++Strike through text++
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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