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

General Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
3.2
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
1.32.2
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days 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
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
LGPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
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
All
Hosting Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
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
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
None
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Development/Support BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Java Script
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Examples BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
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}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
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
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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