Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. XWiki

General Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Version
2.3.13
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
1.9.11
2.1.8
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (28 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
caching of content into database using plugins
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 Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Oddmuse DokuWiki PmWiki MoinMoin Foswiki XWiki
Internal Link
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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
//Italics//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.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
no example known
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
: term : definition
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
----
-----
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---
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