WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Wikidot vs. XWiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
18.0.1
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-02-04 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2026-02-04 (2 days ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Michal Frackowiak
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
AGPLv3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
4536 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
1
English
2
English, Polish
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
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
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)
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
+++ headline level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic text//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined text__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospaced text}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough text--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[image src="..."]]
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
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
= Centered line
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* element 1
* element 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# element 1
# element 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: item : description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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