WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.6.2
18.5.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
Programming Language
ASP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Other
MS Access DB
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4690 ⭐
Common Features WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Output WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples WikiASP XWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
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]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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