DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. Wiki.js vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.2
2.5.299
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
Nicolas Giard
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
AGPL-v3
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Everyone
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
All
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
All
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Node.js
None
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Optional
No
Other
None
No
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JS, CSS
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**Bold Text**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
*Italic Text*
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
<u>Underline Text</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
`Monospace Code`
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^Superscript Text^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
~Subscript Text~
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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