Git-Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Corendal Wiki vs. TracWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
3.0.2
0.11.5
2.11.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Thierry Danard
Edgewall Software
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Java
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
personal, small to medium companies
Corporate
Software development teams
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
*nix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Windows
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Ruby
Java 5.0
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
Git
None
0
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory or Local Accounts
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
1
English
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional, PHP
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Output Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki TracWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike-through~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term::
definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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