PukiWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.5.1
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
OS independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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 servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
Datastorage PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
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
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Usability PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Optional
Yes
Output PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
No
No
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
''bold''
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
N/A
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
N/A
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
N/A
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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