Instiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.30.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (6 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (6 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
all
System Requirements Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
None
no
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Patch
Yes
Development/Support Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
508 ⭐
4478 ⭐
N/A
110 ⭐
Common Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
Optional
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
''ialic text''
''italics''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
`monospace`
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Plugin
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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