DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
1.45.3
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS 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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4629 ⭐
116 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[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
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
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://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ 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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- 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
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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