MoinMoin vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Sputnik

General Features MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Version
1.9.11
6.1.25
1.32.2
8.08.13
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Yuri Takhteyev
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
MIT/X
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Lua
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Small teams or private users
System Requirements MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Other Requirements
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
gcc or Lua
Datastorage MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
MariaDB
No
Git
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
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
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
actions (PHP)
Optional
Lua, JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Output MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Optional
No
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin WackoWiki MediaWiki Sputnik
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[Sputnik]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
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====
# Sputnik
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//italics//
''italic''
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
indented text
one
two
: indented line
> Sputnik
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Sputnik
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Sputnik
Definition Lists
term:: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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