| General Features | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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18.8.0
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1.4.2
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1.9.11
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
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2026-09-29 (24 days ago)
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2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
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2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
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2026-09-30 (23 days ago)
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2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
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2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
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| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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XWiki Development Team
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Wikka Development Team
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https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
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PHP
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Python
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database, RCS
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Database
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Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
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Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
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| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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any (platform-independent)
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
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Servlet 5.0+
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any server with PHP/MySQL support
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Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
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| Other Requirements |
none
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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None
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Text Files |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| MySQL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Oracle |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| SQLite |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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Plugin
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No
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No
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| Other |
No
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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
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No
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Active Directory (patch)
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modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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| nofollow |
Optional
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Blacklist |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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Optional
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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42 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| 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 |
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 |
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1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Threaded
|
Threaded
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Discussion Pages
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| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Links | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| InterWiki |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Image Links |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Windows Shares |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Some
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Some
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| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Scripting |
Optional
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
plugins, see comment ---------------->
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
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| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | XWiki | WikkaWiki | MoinMoin |
| Internal Link |
[[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) |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]] [[target|label|params]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
http://google.de/ or [[http://google.de/ | Google]] or file://///server/share/file |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' '''strong emphasised''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
//italic// |
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
##monospaced## |
`monospaced` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--Strike-- |
++Strike through text++ |
--(strikethrough)-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[[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 |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
only in tables: ||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right || |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove XWiki | remove WikkaWiki | remove MoinMoin |