JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
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
Unix / Linux
Root Access
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 (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
114 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
No
Special Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Patch
No
Links JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
No
Yes
No
Usability JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
No
Extras JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
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://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>text</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
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
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>

only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
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 line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-----
------
----
----
remove JSPWiki remove MoinMoin remove PhpWiki remove ProWiki