WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. XWiki

General Features WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Version
6.1.25
1.9.11
16.3.1
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
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 WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Links WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Patch
No
Yes
Media and Files WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MoinMoin XWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`monospaced`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
one
two
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term:: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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