DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.9
2.4.0
2.11.0
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.4
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
All
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
Google Datastore
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.
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
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.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
117 ⭐
7 ⭐
110 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Links DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
*Bold Format*
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
_Italic format_
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ 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
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?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
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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