JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
3582 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# 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
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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