XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. Zim

General Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Version
16.3.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
3.2
0.56
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Private users, small teams
Hosting Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
None
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
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
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Yes
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Optional
Java Script
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Output XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Keywords
No
Extras XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki Zim
Internal Link
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.org The title]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
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:wiki.png]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
not implemented
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
: indented line
: indented line
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
; term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
not implemented
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