MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Version
1.32.2
16.3.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
3.2
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Hallo Welt! GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
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
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Java Script
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki DokuWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
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)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,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}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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