PukiWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki

General Features PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Version
1.5.1
1.9.11
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Operating System
OS independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
None
none
Datastorage PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
No
Plugin
Links PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Section Editing
Patch
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Output PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

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