DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
2.3.13
18.7.0
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-08-31 (1 day ago)
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-08-31 (1 day ago)
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4706 ⭐
8634 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, 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
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
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Output DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Oddmuse XWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
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