PBwiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Version
N/A
Pleiades-M45
1.45.3
1.9.11
18.5.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
Author
PBworks
team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
corporate and special interest groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
N/A
Unix/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
perl 4 or newer
none
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
No
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 PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Apache
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Development/Support PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
140
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, 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
1
English
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples PBwiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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://www.externallink.com]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
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
<left>, <center>, <right>
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Indented block
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
; term : definition
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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