TiddlyWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Version
5.1.21
1.4.2
2.11.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Wikka Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
all
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
any (platform-independent)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
any server with PHP/MySQL 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
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Active Directory (patch)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
8699 ⭐
42 ⭐
117 ⭐
4738 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
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
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Patch
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WikkaWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospaced##
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
++Strike through text++
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
;term:definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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