WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.4.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
18.7.0
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2026-08-31 (1 day ago)
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-08-31 (1 day ago)
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
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
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki 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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 5.0+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
4706 ⭐
8634 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
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 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
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
# 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
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
; term
: description
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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