DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TracWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
LGPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Any
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
42 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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 PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
No
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

::centered text::
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
(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
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
(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:<def>
def
;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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