GWiki vs. Instiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Version
2.4.0
0.30.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
Ruby's
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
general, education
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Ruby 2.0-2.6
None
Datastorage GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
478 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
1
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Links GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
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
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
None
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Usability GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples GWiki Instiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[another site](http://example.com)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 6######
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
`monospace`
''monospace''
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
N/A
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
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. 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
term
: definition
Plugin
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
***
----
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