MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Version
1.9.11
2.1.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, 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
Any
System Requirements MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Datastorage MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
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
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Patch
Links MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Foswiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
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"}%
[ 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
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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