DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
2.5.8
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
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. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{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 text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
{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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