DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. GWiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
all
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 1.8+
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
4 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki GWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
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