Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.3.13
6.2.1
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Perl
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Patch
No
Media and Files Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse WackoWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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