KeheiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
1.9.11
18.5.0
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
Author
team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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)
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
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
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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