Confluence vs. WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Version
5.2
6.1.25
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Confluence WackoWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
one
two
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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