PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Hosting Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
None
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Development/Support PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a 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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
# 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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