XWiki vs. Wikia vs. MoinMoin

General Features XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Version
16.3.0
N/A
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (11 days ago)
N/A
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (10 days ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
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)
N/A
None
Datastorage XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
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
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
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
N/A
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
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
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
0
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Links XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Optional
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
No
Usability XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
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
Yes
Output XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras XWiki Wikia MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Wikia 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)
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,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}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
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
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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