MoinMoin vs. Zwiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Version
1.9.11
0.61
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Zope
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
none
Datastorage MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Other
No
ZODB (zope object database)
No
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
Development/Support MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
0
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
DTML
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
Output MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Zwiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
indented text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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