SubWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Version
0.1-dev
0.11.5
1.9.11
16.2.0
Last Release Date
no official
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Edgewall Software
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
Modified BSD license
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Python
Python
Java
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Alpha
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
0
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 SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
141
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, Javanese, 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
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
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Links SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
yes, using Python
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Usability SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Yes
Output SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples SubWiki TracWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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)
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
N/A
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
~~strike-through~~
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
N/A
^superscript^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{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
Aligning Text
N/A
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
N/A
term::
definition
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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