GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
all
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
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Common Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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