ikiwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Version
2.67
2.11.0
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Academic Free License
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
Anyone
all
System Requirements ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Operating System
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
112 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Usability ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Statistics ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki JSPWiki SubWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
N/A
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospace}}
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
N/A
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
N/A
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
N/A
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
N/A
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
;term:definition
N/A
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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