alphawiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Version
v.20160608
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
None
Datastorage alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples alphawiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
''monospace''
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
N/A
indented text
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Plugin
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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