EditMe vs. XoWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki

General Features EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Version
N/A
0.113
1.9.11
6.3.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-07-18 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-07-18 (26 days ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
XOTcl and Tcl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
Free
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Operating System
N/A
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
Root Access
N/A
Yes
No
No
Webserver
N/A
AOLServer
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
N/A
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Unknown
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 EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
3
German, English, Spanish
1
English
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Links EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Yes
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples EditMe XoWiki MoinMoin WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
indented text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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