BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Version
3.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2024-04-01 (28 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
LGPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
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 BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
None
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
MariaDB
No
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 BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Java Script
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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