| General Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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v21.12.1
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16.3.0
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6.1.25
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
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2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
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2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
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2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
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2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
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| Author |
Andreas Gohr
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Dan Brown
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XWiki Development Team
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WackoWiki Team
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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MIT
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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BSD
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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Java
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database
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Database, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
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Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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No
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N/A
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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OS Independent
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
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Servlet 3.1+
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run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
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| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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mod_rewrite (optional)
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| Datastorage | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Oracle |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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No
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Plugin
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No
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| Other |
None
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MariaDB
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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
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MariaDB
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| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
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XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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| Host Blocking |
Plugin
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No
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No
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Optional
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| Mail Encryption |
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
No
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Optional
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| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
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Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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| Development/Support | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
3582 ⭐
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10374 ⭐
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N/A
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32 ⭐
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Restricted by Number
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Comments |
Plugin
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Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
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| Categories |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
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| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
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| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
None
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Usability | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
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| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | BookStack | XWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a 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) |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
|
//Italics// |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
|
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
|
##monospace## |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
--Strike-- |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
,,subscript,, |
vvsubscriptvv |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
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 |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
* List ** list *** list |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| 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} |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove DokuWiki | remove BookStack | remove XWiki | remove WackoWiki |