PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2.11.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (3 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
Datastorage PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
Optional
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
110 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
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 PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Links PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Usability PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Output PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[ 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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
;term:definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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