WikyBlog vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
1.5.4
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
1.32.2
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
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
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Internet Communities
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Anyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
MySQL
various opt. helpers
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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 WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
No
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Output WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikyBlog DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
[[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.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[[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
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: 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
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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