Drupal Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
8.26
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (30 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (23 days ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
End Users/Desktop, Education
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.
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Yes
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
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Widgets
Optional
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki TWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[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
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== 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
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
: indented line
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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- 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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term : definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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