DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.33
16.2.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (3 days ago)
2024-03-24 (30 days ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (2 days ago)
2024-03-25 (29 days ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
none
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
# 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
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
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
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, 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
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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