JSPWiki vs. GWiki vs. Zim vs. PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.11.0
2.4.0
0.56
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Roger Rene Kommer
Jaap Karssenberg
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Private users, small teams
Any
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Windows, OSX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
All Java Servlet Container, included
None
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 1.8+
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
various opt. helpers
Datastorage JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Google Datastore
Text Files with index in SQLite
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal and external with adapter
File permissions
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
2
German, English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Links JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki GWiki Zim PhpWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.com]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
=== Heading ===
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
*Bold Format*
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_Italic format_
//italic//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+Unterlined+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-StrikeThrough-
~~strike~~
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript^
^{sup}
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript~
_{sub}
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{./image.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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
not implemented
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
indent with tabs
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
not implemented
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
----
not implemented
----
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