MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Confluence vs. XWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.45.3
TWiki-6.1.0
2.6.0
5.2
18.4.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-05-27 (14 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-05-27 (14 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 5.0+
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki Confluence XWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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)
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
+underline+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
; term
: definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
----
----
-----
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