DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. wxWikiServer

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
2.11.0
2.3.13
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
C++
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
family people, hackers
End users/Desktop
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
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
built-in
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
None
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
unknown
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
88 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
no
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse wxWikiServer
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
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
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
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
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
----------
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
'' italic text ''
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>
start line with blank space.
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)
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
] centred text
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
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* one
* two
* two.1
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
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item 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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