DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
2.3.13
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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