Drupal Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. GWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Version
8.26
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2023-05-31 (9 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-06-05 (9 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
none
None
Java 1.8+
Datastorage Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
No
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
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 Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Widgets
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Output Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.com]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~Subscript~
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
N/A
: indented line
indented text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Plugin
; term : definition
term:: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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