Corendal Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
3.0.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
1.32.2
2.3.33
6.1.25
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
Author
Thierry Danard
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Corporate
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Unix / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Java 5.0
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory or Local Accounts
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Media and Files Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples Corendal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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