DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. TracWiki

General Features DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
18.4.0
1.9.11
2.1.11
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2026-05-27 (18 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2026-05-27 (18 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Software development teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
None
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
caching of content into database using plugins
0
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4635 ⭐
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
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
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, 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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki MoinMoin Foswiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[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
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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