DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.11
1.32.2
1.5.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
2026-03-15 (17 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PukiWiki Development Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
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
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki PukiWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
'''italic'''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%strikethrough%%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
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
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
:term|definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
--------------------
----
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