XWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. JSPWiki

General Features XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Version
16.3.0
2.3.33
1.9.11
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
2024-04-20 (14 days ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2024-04-21 (13 days ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
all
Hosting Features XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
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
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
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
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 XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki 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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
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
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Links XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics XWiki 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
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output XWiki 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
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PmWiki MoinMoin JSPWiki
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 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
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! 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'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
`monospaced`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
--(strikethrough)--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
{{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
(% 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
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%%(text-align: right) text %%
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
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# 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
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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