DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. JSPWiki

General Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
1.32.2
2.3.13
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
all
System Requirements DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Writable data directory
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Optional
Perl
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
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
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Output DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: description
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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