JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Zwiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.9.11
0.61
Last Release Date
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
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
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
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Operating System
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
Webserver
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 JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Patch
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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 JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Zwiki
Internal Link
[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://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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[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
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
%%(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 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# 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
;term:definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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