DokuWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
1.32.2
16.2.0
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Hosting Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
None
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
MariaDB
No
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
# 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
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
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
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
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
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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