MoasdaWiki vs. WikiNi vs. ikiwiki vs. Hatta vs. XWiki

General Features MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Version
3.9.1
0.5.0
2.67
1.6.6
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-07-27 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-07-28 (1 day ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Any, or none
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
Mercurial
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
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 MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
n/a
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
1
French
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Links MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
None
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Patch
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
No
Statistics MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Yes
Output MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki WikiNi ikiwiki Hatta XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
[[internal]]
[[link]]
[[link|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]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[ ]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[[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

Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
** **
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
// //
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__ __
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
n/a
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
## ##
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{{verbatim}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
@@ @@
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
n/a
--Strike--
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
n/a
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
n/a
,,subscript,,
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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 text
n/a
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
n/a
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
-
-
-
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* list
** sublist
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1)
1)
1)
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
n/a
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
n/a
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
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