GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. JSPWiki

General Features GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
1.32.2
2.3.13
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
all
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
A common browser
none
Writable data directory
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
67 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Optional
Perl
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Output GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse JSPWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[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
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
%%(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
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
; term
: description
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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