Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. BookStack vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Version
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
18.0.1
v21.12.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-02-04 (6 days ago)
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-02-04 (6 days ago)
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Dan Brown
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
GPL
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
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 Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Node.js
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
none
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
27853 ⭐
4538 ⭐
N/A
18237 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, 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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki BookStack MediaWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[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]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[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]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{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]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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