bLADE Wiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Wikidot vs. XWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Version
3.4.9
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
18.0.1
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
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
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
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
Dale Lane
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Michal Frackowiak
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
AGPLv3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
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 bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
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
No
Webserver
N/A
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
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 bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Development/Support bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
42 ⭐
4536 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
No
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
None
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
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
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Patch
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Patch
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Patch
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki WikkaWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki Wikidot XWiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
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://www.linkme.com]
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
+Heading
====== 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 text*
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
=italic text=
//italic//
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italic text//
//Italics//
Underline Format
_underlined text_
__underlined__
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underlined text__
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
##monospaced##
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospaced text}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
++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
[$image.jpg$]
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
> blockquote text
(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
- bulleted
(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
# numbered
(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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