DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.1.11
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months 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)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
N/A
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
all
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any
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
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
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
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4629 ⭐
118 ⭐
116 ⭐
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
No
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Links DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki 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]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[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
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
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'}]
[ 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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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 %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* 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
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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---
----
----
---
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