JSPWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. DokuWiki

General Features JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Version
2.11.0
2.7.6
1.9.11
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-09-18 (4 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-09-18 (4 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
Datastorage JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4720 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
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
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
1
English
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Links JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PmWiki MoinMoin DokuWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
: term : definition
term:: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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