JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
16.2.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
Hosting Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
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 MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki XWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
//Italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


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

Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# list
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
----
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