MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Version
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
family people, hackers
System Requirements MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
None
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Patch
Plugin
Links MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ 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
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 RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
Text Indentation
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

# one
## two
Definition Lists
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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