XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
16.3.0
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
N/A
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
none
A common browser
Datastorage XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
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
N/A
None
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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 PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
1
English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Optional, PHP
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
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
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
N/A
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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