Wikia vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. JSPWiki

General Features Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Version
N/A
2.3.33
1.9.11
2.11.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL2+
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
all
Hosting Features Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
N/A
none
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Optional
Oracle
N/A
No
No
Optional
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
Optional
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Links Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Yes
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikia PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
term:: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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