Drupal Wiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Version
8.37
18.8.0
1.45.3
TWiki-6.1.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
2026-09-29 (10 days ago)
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (1 year ago)
2026-09-30 (9 days ago)
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Software development teams
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Servlet 5.0+
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
0
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Scripting
Widgets
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Output Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki XWiki MediaWiki TWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term
: definition
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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