XoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Version
0.113
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
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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
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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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Yes
Optional, PHP
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Statistics XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples XoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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