JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. Wicked vs. XWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.45.3
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.0.8
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
25 different backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
116 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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
No
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Some
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki Wicked XWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
@@--- strikethrough @@
--Strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ 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
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
----
----
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