| General Features | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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18.7.0
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1.45.3
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1.0
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
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2026-08-31 (22 days ago)
|
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
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2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
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2026-08-31 (22 days ago)
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2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
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2007-09-16 (19 years ago)
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| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
David Jobet
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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GPL2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database, RCS
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Database
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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private users
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| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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All
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Servlet 5.0+
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Any with PHP support
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Apache
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| Other Requirements |
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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none
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MySql
|
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| Datastorage | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
|
No
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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Plugin
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No
|
No
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| Other |
None
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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
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Yes
|
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| Host Blocking |
Plugin
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Yes
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No
|
No
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| Development/Support | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
4720 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
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| 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 |
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 |
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional
|
Not at the moment
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki | Wiclear |
| 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) |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Title] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
[Title|http://url.to/] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!title1 !!title2 !!!title3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces and it will be pre formatted |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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 |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100)) |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
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 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
*item1 *item2 **item21 **item22 *item3 |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
#item1 ##item1.1 ##item1.2 #item2 #item3 |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
;def1 : the complete definition of def1 ;def2 : the complete definition of def2 |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
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| remove DokuWiki | remove XWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Wiclear |