XWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. GWiki

General Features XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Version
16.2.0
1.9.11
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Java
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Hosting Features XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Java 1.8+
Datastorage XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
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
No
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
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 XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
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
1
English
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
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
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Yes
No
No
Media and Files XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Examples XWiki MoinMoin GWiki
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)
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.com]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`monospaced`
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--(strikethrough)--
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
~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
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
indented text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
term:: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-----
------
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