Wikia vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. MediaWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Version
N/A
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
1.32.2
1.4.2
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (9 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (7 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
AGPL-v3
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Java
PHP
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Everyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All
Any with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Other
N/A
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
None
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Yes
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
19117 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
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
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
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Patch
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Optional
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Statistics Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Output Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
No
Extras Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wikia XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
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]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[http://example.org The title]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
*Italic Text*
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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