JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.9.11
2.5.6
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-02-08 (15 days ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-02-08 (15 days ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, 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. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
none
none
Datastorage JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki 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
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
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
114 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki 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 PmWiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
No
Links JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Usability JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<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}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
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
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term:: definition
: term : definition
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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