Confluence vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Version
5.2
2.11.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
various opt. helpers
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
No
Extras Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Confluence JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italics''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
+underline+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
~subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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