GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
16.3.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (12 days ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (11 days ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Javascript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everyone
Hosting Features GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
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 GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
All
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Other
Google Datastore
None
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
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
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a 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)
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
~Subscript Text~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
%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
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
-> 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
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
---
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