DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
6.1.25
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Any
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
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 WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
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
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
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 XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
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
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


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

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

Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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