Foswiki vs. GWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse

General Features Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Version
2.1.9
2.4.0
1.9.11
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Roger Rene Kommer
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Free
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
System Requirements Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
All Java Servlet Container, included
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
None
Writable data directory
Datastorage Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Google Datastore
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
7 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
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
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
2
German, English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Links Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
No
Media and Files Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold*
*Bold Format*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
_Italic format_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
-----
------
Depending on plugins:
----
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