SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
18.5.0
1.45.3
2.67
Last Release Date
2017-08-05 (8 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
per server
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
.NET - C#
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Anyone
Hosting Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Any with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
MS SQL Server
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4680 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
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
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Scripting
javascript
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
[[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]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[[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]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''Bold text'''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''Italicized text''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined text</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text=
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
{{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]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<div align="right">
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- 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
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
; term : definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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