PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
16.2.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (4 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (30 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
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 PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Output PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image 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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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