Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Version
2.5.299
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
3.2
Last Release Date
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2021-03-16 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
2021-03-17 (5 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
Hallo Welt! GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
GPLv3
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise + Technical Teams
System Requirements Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Other Requirements
Node.js
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
28634 ⭐
4684 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, 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
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
Java Script
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Optional
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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