DokuWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Pleiades-M45
1.32.2
2.5.8
6.2.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
corporate and special interest groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
None
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
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 KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Apache
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
1
English
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
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.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
Aligning Text
Plugin
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
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
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
; term : definition
: term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
----
----
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