Wikidot vs. DokuWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.11.5
1.32.2
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL 2
Modified BSD license
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
0
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 Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
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
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional, PHP
yes, using Python
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Output Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikidot DokuWiki TracWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[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://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[image src="..."]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[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
= Centered line
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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