DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.9
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
Software development teams
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
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 others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
various opt. helpers
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
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
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
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 PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Some
Plugin
Some
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
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
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, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,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://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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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