XWiki vs. Wikidot vs. EditMe vs. DokuWiki

General Features XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Version
16.2.0
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
EditMe, LLC
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
N/A
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
From $4.95/mo
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Unknown
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Unknown
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
Yes
Unknown
N/A
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
N/A
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
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
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
2
English, Polish
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
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
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Wikidot EditMe DokuWiki
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)
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+++ headline level 3
Use WYSIWYG editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italic text//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined text__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
Use WYSIWYG editor
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
Use WYSIWYG editor
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
<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 src="..."]]
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
Use WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Use WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# element 1
# element 1
Use WYSIWYG editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: item : description
Use WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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Use WYSIWYG editor
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