WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.32
16.2.0
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
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 WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
No
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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 WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
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
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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
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
Patch
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
===underline===
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
--strike--
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered text::
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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