MoinMoin vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.9.11
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
System Requirements MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
None
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
Common Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional, PHP
Optional
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Output MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin DokuWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
Text Indentation
indented text
N/A
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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