Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. BookStack vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Version
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
16.2.0
v21.12.1
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (9 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (7 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Dan Brown
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
BSD
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Node.js
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
A common browser
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
No
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
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
10374 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki BookStack TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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