DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki 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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
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
No
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki 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 XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
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
No
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 XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
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 XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki 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
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki 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
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
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:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%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
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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