MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.45.3
18.8.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2026-09-29 (15 days ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2026-09-30 (14 days ago)
2026-03-25 (6 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
all
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
A common browser
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
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
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4729 ⭐
117 ⭐
8681 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
//italics//
''italics''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~~subscript~~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Plugin
;term:definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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