MoinMoin vs. XWiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Version
1.9.11
16.3.0
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-04-29 (10 days ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-04-30 (9 days ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
Python
Java
C++
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End users/Desktop
Hosting Features MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 3.1+
built-in
Other Requirements
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
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 MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
unknown
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
no
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin XWiki wxWikiServer
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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)
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
] centred text
Text Indentation
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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