PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
6.1.25
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (17 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (17 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
personal, small to medium companies
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
System Requirements PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Datastorage PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
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
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
# 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 ⭐
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
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
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 WackoWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
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]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

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

section
=======

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


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

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

Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# list
- 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


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
;term:definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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