PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. MediaWiki

General Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
2.3.13
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
personal, small to medium companies
all
family people, hackers
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Output PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[ 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}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
;term:definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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