DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wicked

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.11
2.11.0
1.45.3
2.3.13
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
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
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
Any
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
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Writable data directory
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4629 ⭐
118 ⭐
116 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Perl
No
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse Wicked
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
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://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italics''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
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 %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
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"}%
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
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 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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