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

General Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Version
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.0
1.32.2
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Javascript
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
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 Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Operating System
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
Node.js
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
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
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
10374 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiki.js DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki BookStack
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[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
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[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
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{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
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- 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
Plugin
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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