MoasdaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
3.7.1
1.32.2
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2023-12-31 (4 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-01-01 (4 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Output MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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