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

General Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
6.1.24
16.2.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files, 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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Google Datastore
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
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 WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
All
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== 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 6
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
''italics''
//italics//
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
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: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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