| General Features | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
|
2.11.0
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
Apache License 2.0
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database, Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
all
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
117 ⭐
|
4720 ⭐
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
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 |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospace}} |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
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