DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Foswiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
2.11.0
2.1.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (7 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (6 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
Foswiki Community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, 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
all
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Any
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
caching of content into database using plugins
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki JSPWiki Foswiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"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
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: 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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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