JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Version
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
16.2.0
1.32.2
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
all
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
Hosting Features JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki DokuWiki PhpWiki XWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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: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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
; term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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