Confluence vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wikia

General Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Version
5.2
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
N/A
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Wikia, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All users
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
N/A
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
N/A
Datastorage Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
N/A
Other
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
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Development/Support Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
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
No
Special Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
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
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Optional
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Keywords
Extras Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Wikia
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
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}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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