JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
18.2.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Servlet 5.0+
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
various opt. helpers
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
No
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
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.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Statistics JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Media and Files JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
##monospace##
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
; term
: definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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