wxWikiServer vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Version
1.5.11c
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
18.7.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
2026-08-31 (22 days ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2026-08-31 (22 days ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
C++
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
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 wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4720 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
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
1
French
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
no
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Usability wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Statistics wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer DokuWiki XWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[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)
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[ ]]
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//italics//
//Italics//
// //
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
''monospace''
##monospace##
## ##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
{{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
Aligning Text
] centred text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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