Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
18.2.1
1.32.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2026-04-09 (12 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2026-04-09 (12 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (27 days ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Software development teams
Hosting Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Servlet 5.0+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
None
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
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
None
0
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki 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
4600 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki 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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
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
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
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Optional, PHP
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
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]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
===underline===
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.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]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[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
::centered text::
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
# 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Plugin
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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