XWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Oddmuse

General Features XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Version
16.3.1
1.9.11
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
family people, hackers
Hosting Features XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
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 Oddmuse
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Writable data directory
Datastorage XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
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
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
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
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
# 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 Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Links XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
No
No
Media and Files XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Examples XWiki MoinMoin Oddmuse
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]]
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
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/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--(strikethrough)--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
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}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
no example known
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
term:: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-----
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Depending on plugins:
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