Confluence vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Version
5.2
2.1.8
1.32.2
1.9.11
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
Author
Atlassian
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Confluence Foswiki MediaWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
-----
------
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