Instiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
0.30.0
16.3.0
1.32.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2024-04-29 (12 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2024-04-30 (11 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Public Domain (!)
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Java
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
small + medium sites, development teams
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
none
A common browser
Datastorage Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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
no
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
Common Features Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
optional
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Instiki XWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
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]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
//Italics//
''italic''
''ialic text''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
==monospaced text==
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
optional or via css
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
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]]
[link to the image.jpg]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
; term
: definition
; term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
***
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