JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
no
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
No
Statistics JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''ialic text''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
optional or via css
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
optional or via css
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
;term:definition
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
----
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---
***
___
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Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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