MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki

General Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Version
1.32.2
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
Software development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
None
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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 MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
141
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
_italic_
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
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
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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