GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
2.4.0
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
1.9.11
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.4
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Java
Perl
Python
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
corporate and special interest groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
Any
All
System Requirements GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
None
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
110 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples GWiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
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
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
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
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{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)
[ 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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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Depending on plugins:
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