MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. BookStack

General Features MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Version
1.9.11
1.32.2
16.2.0
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (30 days ago)
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (29 days ago)
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Links MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Output MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin MediaWiki XWiki BookStack
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[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
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term:: definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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