Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
16.3.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Hosting Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
Node.js
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
No
Plugin
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
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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)
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
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://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
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..
-= Titlebar =-
! 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##
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strike--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
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 src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered 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
leading spaces, if activated.
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:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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