MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Version
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, 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
none
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
Datastorage MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Optional
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki PhpWiki 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 MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Links MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Usability MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[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
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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