LynxWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Roadkill vs. XWiki

General Features LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Version
1.3.0.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.30.0
1.32.2
1.6
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
27/04/2013
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-04-25 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
C.Small
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
Ruby's
GPL
MS-PL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
C#
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP
C#
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
End Users/Desktop, Education
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
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
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any with PHP support
IIS, Apache
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
IronPython
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Patch
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
SQL Server, MongoDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
1
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
1
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
3
Czech, English, Polish
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
Email notification
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Links LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
IronPython
Optional, PHP
None
Optional
none
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
Output LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples LynxWiki DokuWiki Instiki MediaWiki Roadkill XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[Pagename|linkname]]
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)
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://example.org The title]
[[URL|linkname]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Large heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
** bold **
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
''monospace''
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{

monospace

}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
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
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet List
** Sub item
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Numbered list
## Sub item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
N/A
Plugin
term
: definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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***
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