Confluence vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Version
5.2
1.45.3
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
18.5.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (24 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (24 days ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 5.0+
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Links Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Usability Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Confluence MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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)
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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