DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
6.1.25
16.2.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and 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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
# 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 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
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
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 WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
//italics//
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* 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


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. 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}
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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