DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. GWiki

General Features DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.0
2.11.0
6.1.25
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 1.8+
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
None
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
4 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
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 XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki 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
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
''italics''
//italics//
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
~Subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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