UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki

General Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-29 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-30 (9 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
None
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 UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Patch
Optional
No
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
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
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[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 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
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
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# 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
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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