DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
6.1.25
2.3.13
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (16 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (16 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
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
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Perl
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== 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 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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