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

General Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Version
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
16.3.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
No
MariaDB
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
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
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki TWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
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]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! 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
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
Text Indentation
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* 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
# 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
; term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
---
----
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