WackoWiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Version
6.1.24
3.2
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Tiki Software Community Association
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPLv3
LGPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
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 WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, Windows
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
MariaDB
MariaDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Java Script
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[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]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[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]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{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]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# 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
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
;term:definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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