DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Foswiki vs. TracWiki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.45.3
18.4.0
2.1.11
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2026-05-27 (18 days ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2026-06-03 (11 days ago)
2026-05-27 (18 days ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Software development teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
No
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
caching of content into database using plugins
0
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4635 ⭐
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
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
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Foswiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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