Foswiki vs. GWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki

General Features Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Version
2.1.9
2.4.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Roger Rene Kommer
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Free
0
0
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. :)
Any
System Requirements Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
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+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
None
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Google Datastore
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
7 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
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 Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Links Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki GWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
*bold*
*Bold Format*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
_italic_
_Italic format_
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</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://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
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
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
# list
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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----
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