BookStack vs. DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
v21.12.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
1.32.2
6.1.25
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2024-03-25 (25 days ago)
Author
Dan Brown
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL 2
AGPL-v3
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Everyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
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
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Node.js
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
None
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
No
MariaDB
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 BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
10374 ⭐
3582 ⭐
19117 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, 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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
Email notification
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Optional
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Media and Files BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples BookStack DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
*Italic Text*
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.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
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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