JSPWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.11.0
0.11.5
1.45.3
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
None
Datastorage JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
0
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
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 TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
yes, using Python
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Usability JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Optional
Yes
Output JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki TracWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term::
definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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