DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Git-Wiki

General Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Ruby
Data Storage
Files
Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Private, Public
System Requirements DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
None
Ruby
Datastorage DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
None
No
Git
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
242 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
1
English
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Links DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MoinMoin Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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