DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.11.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
family people, hackers
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
88 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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

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

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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