Instiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Foswiki

General Features Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Version
0.30.0
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Instiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Foswiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
: indented line
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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