TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. JSPWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Version
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.3.13
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Alex Schroeder
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
family people, hackers
all
System Requirements TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Anything supported by Perl
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Writable data directory
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
no
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
None (use your web server instead)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
8524 ⭐
4526 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
112 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
optional
Perl
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Statistics TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
No
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
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
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.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://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''ialic text''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
optional or via css
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
optional or via css
no example known
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
%%(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
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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