MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. ikiwiki

General Features MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Version
1.32.2
1.9.11
2.67
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Anyone
System Requirements MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any, or none
Other Requirements
none
None
Datastorage MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MoinMoin ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
; term : definition
term:: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-----
------
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove MediaWiki remove MoinMoin remove ikiwiki