UseMod vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
1.32.2
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (25 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (24 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (25 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Hosting Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
none
Datastorage UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
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
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
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
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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples UseMod DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
N/A
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
: indented
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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