DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Foswiki vs. TWiki vs. BookStack

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
17.10.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2.1.10
TWiki-6.1.0
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2025-12-18 (12 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2022-01-06 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
2025-12-18 (12 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2022-01-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
Foswiki Community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
GPL
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
$0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
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
MariaDB
caching of content into database using plugins
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4500 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
17952 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Foswiki TWiki BookStack
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)
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
| 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
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<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 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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