XWiki vs. Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Version
16.2.0
5.2
2.3.32
6.1.24
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
Datastorage XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Media and Files XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Confluence PmWiki WackoWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italics_
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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