MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. TracWiki vs. XWiki

General Features MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Version
1.9.11
2.5.9
0.11.5
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-30 (7 days ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-03-31 (6 days ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
Software development teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
None
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
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 MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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
Common Features MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MoinMoin PmWiki TracWiki XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
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
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%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
Text Indentation
indented text
-> 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
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
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
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term:: definition
: term : definition
term::
definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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