UseMod vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. MoinMoin

General Features UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Version
1.0
1.32.2
2.3.13
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
None
Datastorage UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
No
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
# 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
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Optional
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Optional
Perl
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Yes
Output UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples UseMod MediaWiki Oddmuse MoinMoin
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
N/A
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
: indented
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
-----
------
remove UseMod remove MediaWiki remove Oddmuse remove MoinMoin