MediaWiki vs. MoasdaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Version
1.32.2
3.9.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Herbert Reiter
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
AGPL-3.0-only
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal usage, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki 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 MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
Java VM 17+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
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 MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
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
2
German, 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
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
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://example.org The title]
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
##italic##
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace font@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~striked through~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image:wiki.png}}
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
<center>Centered</center>
{{center}}centered text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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