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

General Features XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Version
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-01 (27 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Tiki Software Community Association
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
none
Datastorage XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
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
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
Development/Support XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki DokuWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware MediaWiki
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]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</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}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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