DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Wikia

General Features DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
N/A
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (30 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (29 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (22 days ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
Wikia, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
LGPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
All users
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Works on standard shared hosting
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
N/A
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
N/A
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
No
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
N/A
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
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
No
Special Features DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Yes
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wikia
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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
((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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
---
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