MoasdaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki

General Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Version
3.7.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2023-12-31 (4 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-01-01 (4 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
None
none
Datastorage MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
##italic##
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
''monospace''
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
N/A
indented text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
Plugin
term:: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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