DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wikepage

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
2008.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2008-10-13 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2008-10-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jose Carlos Medeiros
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private users, small groups
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Platform Independent
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Server Independent
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
n/a
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki Wikepage
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**Bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
''Italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__Underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
With a space in front of the text
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ 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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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