PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse

General Features PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Version
2.5.8
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-09 (25 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
System Requirements PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
none
None
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
# 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
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Common Features PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Output PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
-----
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Depending on plugins:
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