wxWikiServer vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. giewiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Version
1.5.11c
18.6.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.13.1
1.45.3
1.0
Last Release Date
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-07-27 (29 days ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-07-28 (28 days ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2011-08-14 (15 years ago)
2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Poul Staugaard
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
new BSD License
GPL
GPL2
Programming Language
C++
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files
other
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
community/personal
End Users/Desktop, Education
private users
Hosting Features wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows/Mac/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Google App Engine or SDK
Any with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Python 2.5
none
MySql
Datastorage wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
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
App Engine
No
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Google accounts
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4707 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
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
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Optional
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Output wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
No
Extras wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer XWiki DokuWiki giewiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
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]]
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Title]
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
**bold**
''Bald''
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
//italics//
//Italy//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__Undertow__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
''monospace''
{{{Courier}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Sorry--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
256^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Sub~~script~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
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 /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# One
# Two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term
: description
; term : definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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