DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WikiASP

General Features DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
2.11.0
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2005-10-12 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2006-08-26 (17 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License 2.0
FREE
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
ASP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
all
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
System Requirements DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
IIS
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
No
Optional
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Unknown
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
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
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Scripting
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Output DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
XML export
No
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ikiwiki JSPWiki WikiASP
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
__bold__
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
Italics Format
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italics''
''The quotation''
Underline Format
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospace}}
<space char here>This is mono
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
_This is Strike Through_
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Test
* Bullets
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

Definition Lists
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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***
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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