Wikia vs. DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
1.32.2
16.3.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
$0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
None
caching of content into database using plugins
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
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
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 Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[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)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[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
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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