XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. MediaWiki

General Features XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
Version
16.3.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.5.299
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (1 day ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Nicolas Giard
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
AGPL-v3
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Everyone
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js 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 Wiki.js MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
none
Datastorage XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js 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
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js 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 ⭐
19117 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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 Wiki.js 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
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
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
No
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
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
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
JS, CSS
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Output XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki DokuWiki Wiki.js 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]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[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]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
*Italic Text*
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
`Monospace Code`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
<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}}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<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
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* 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
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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