DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
2.67
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Anyone
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any, or none
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Optional
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
no
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Optional
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[internal]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
__bold__
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
optional or via css
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# 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 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

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