MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. MoinMoin

General Features MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Version
1.45.3
5.2
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
None
Datastorage MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Confluence MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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