PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.3.33
16.2.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
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
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
family people, hackers
Hosting Features PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
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
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
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
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Links PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki XWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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)
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= 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'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
`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--
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
{{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
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)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
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
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
: definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
-----
------
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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