ProntoWiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XoWiki

General Features ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
Version
1.0.1
16.3.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.113
Last Release Date
2024-05-18 (1 day ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
C#
Java
PHP
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Hosting Features ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
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 XoWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
IIS 5+
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
AOLServer
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
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 XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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 XoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
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
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
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
Unknown
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Yes
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki XWiki DokuWiki XoWiki
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]]
External Link
{title|url}
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__under__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
,,subscript,,
<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}}
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
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
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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