TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Version
0.11.5
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.8.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-09-29 (6 days ago)
2005-06-15 (19 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (3 years ago)
2024-10-01 (4 days ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
small + medium sites, development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
None
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
0
No
None
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Links TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki ErfurtWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''ialic text''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
optional or via css
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
optional or via css
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
[link to the image.jpg]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
optional or via css
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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