DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Zwiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.9.11
0.61
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Zope
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Patch
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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 DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
DTML
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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