DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. XWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
phpwiki-1.3.14
18.4.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-05-27 (14 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (14 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
XWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4631 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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)
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ 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
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
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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