MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Version
1.32.2
16.2.0
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
No
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
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
# 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
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
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 XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
_italics_
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
+underline+
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
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