Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
16.2.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (24 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everyone
Hosting Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
All
Other Requirements
None
none
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Other
MariaDB
No
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
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
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
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki DokuWiki PmWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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 Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
~Subscript Text~
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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 Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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