JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
System Requirements JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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 JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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