Foswiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Foswiki MoinMoin
Version
2.1.9
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements Foswiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage Foswiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
116 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Links Foswiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Usability Foswiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output Foswiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Media and Files Foswiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras Foswiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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