DokuWiki vs. UseMod vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.2.2
18.3.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-04-27 (7 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-04-28 (6 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Clifford Adams
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
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
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Patch
No
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4612 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
0
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
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki UseMod XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a 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)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[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 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
N/A
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented
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
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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
Horizontal Rule
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