DokuWiki vs. Wikidot vs. PukiWiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.5.1
N/A
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
N/A
2026-07-27 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2026-07-28 (1 day ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Michal Frackowiak
PukiWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL 2
AGPLv3
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
One theme, one PukiWiki
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
no limit
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
N/A
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
No
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
N/A
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 Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
4693 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
2
English, Polish
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Patch
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Statistics DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
+++ headline level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic text//
'''italic'''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined text__
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospaced text}}
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough text--
%%strikethrough%%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[image src="..."]]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
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
= Centered line
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
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
* element 1
* element 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# element 1
# element 1
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
: item : description
:term|definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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