DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Zim

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.9
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
2.3.13
0.56
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
team
Alex Schroeder
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Perl
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
corporate and special interest groups
family people, hackers
Private users, small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
None
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
Writable data directory
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
None (use your web server instead)
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
117 ⭐
110 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
All
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Perl
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse Zim
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
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
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
_{sub}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
no example known
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* one
** two
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
----
not implemented
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