| General Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
v21.12.1
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1.45.3
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18.5.0
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8.37
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| Last Release Date |
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
|
2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
|
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
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2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
|
2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
|
2025-06-12 (1 year ago)
|
| Author |
Dan Brown
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
XWiki Development Team
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https://kontextwork.de
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| License |
MIT
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GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
Commercial
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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Java
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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Different licences
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Enterprise
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| Hosting Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
||
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
|
||
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
||
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| System Requirements | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
Apache, nginx
|
| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
none
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
|
| Datastorage | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
No
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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
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Yes
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
18885 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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 |
2
German, English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
None
|
Optional
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Widgets
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media and Files | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
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) |
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog) alternatively: [[#123]] [[#123][label]] |
| External Link |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor) alternatively: [[http://drupal-wiki.com]] [[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]] |
| Headlines |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--Strike-- |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
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 |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
---- |
---- |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| remove BookStack | remove MediaWiki | remove XWiki | remove Drupal Wiki |