MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta

General Features MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Version
1.9.11
2.1.11
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
Datastorage MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Links MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Usability MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Foswiki Hatta
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
Text Indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
-----
------
---
----
remove MoinMoin remove Foswiki remove Hatta