DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.9
2.4.0
2.11.0
2.3.13
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)
2018-09-04 (7 years 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)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Free
0
free
Development status
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
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
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+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
117 ⭐
7 ⭐
110 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
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]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
*Bold Format*
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
_Italic format_
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
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://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
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
* one
** two
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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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