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

General Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.11.0
2.3.32
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
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
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Development/Support TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
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
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Output TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples TWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PmWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[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)
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.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
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%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
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> 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 1.1
* 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
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- 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
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
: term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
----
----
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