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

General Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.32
2.5.299
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
2023-06-02 (9 months ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2023-07-30 (7 months ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Nicolas Giard
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
AGPL-v3
LGPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Everyone
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Hosting Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js 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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
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.
All
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
none
Node.js
None
Datastorage XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Optional
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
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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.
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js 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
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, 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
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
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
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JS, CSS
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media and Files XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Syntax Examples XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki Wiki.js Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
__bold__
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
*Italic Text*
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>Underline Text</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
`Monospace Code`
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript Text^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript Text~
{SUB()}text{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]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
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
::centered text::
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 text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
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 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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