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

General Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.1.25
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
2024-03-24 (30 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
2024-03-25 (29 days ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
all
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
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
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Links GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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)
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]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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