XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Version
16.3.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
N/A
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
N/A
Datastorage XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
N/A
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
N/A
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
N/A
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
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
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]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
---
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