| General Features | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5.299
|
18.6.0
|
v21.12.1
|
1.45.3
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
|
2026-07-27 (28 days ago)
|
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
|
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-07-30 (3 years ago)
|
2026-07-28 (27 days ago)
|
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
|
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Nicolas Giard
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Dan Brown
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
AGPL-v3
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
MIT
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Javascript
|
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
Database, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
N/A
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Everyone
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
| Hosting Features | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| 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 | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Operating System |
All
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
All
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
| Other Requirements |
Node.js
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
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
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
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
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
28787 ⭐
|
N/A
|
19003 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JS, CSS
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
None
|
Optional
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Output | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wiki.js | XWiki | BookStack | MediaWiki | TWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
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]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
**Bold Text** |
**bold** |
|
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
*Italic Text* |
//Italics// |
|
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
__underline__ |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`Monospace Code` |
##monospace## |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
--Strike-- |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
^Superscript Text^ |
^^superscript^^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~Subscript Text~ |
,,subscript,, |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
 |
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]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
|
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
* List ** list *** list |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
|
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
|
---- |
--- |
| remove Wiki.js | remove XWiki | remove BookStack | remove MediaWiki | remove TWiki |