GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
Google Datastore
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Usability GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
;term:definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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