DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WikkaWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
1.32.2
1.9.11
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Tiki Software Community Association
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Works on standard shared hosting
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
None
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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
1
English
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
-+monospace+-
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
--strike--
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
::centered text::
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
indented text
leading spaces, if activated.
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
term:: definition
;term:definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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