DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikidot

General Features DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
18.7.0
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
Yes
System Requirements DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Text Files
Yes
No
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
None
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 XWiki Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4708 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
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
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
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
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki Wikidot
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)
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
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 src="..."]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
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