MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Version
1.45.3
18.5.0
6.3.0
0.61
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPLv2
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
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 WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
OS Independent
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
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
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
None
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Patch
Optional
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
4692 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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 MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
DTML
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki DokuWiki
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* 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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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