DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
16.3.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki XWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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