ProntoWiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.0.1
16.3.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-05-18 (1 day ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
C#
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki 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 ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
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 ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
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
{title|url}
[[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
!, !!, !!!
= 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
''italics''
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
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
available through custom tags
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
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
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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