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

General Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
6.1.24
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)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months 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
WackoWiki Team
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
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
personal, small to medium companies
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
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
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
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
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Restricted by Age
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 PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
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
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
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Perl
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Output PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
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
[[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]
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
[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
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
''italics''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
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}}
##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 %%
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
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'}]
((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)
[[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 %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
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 %%
one
two
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
**One-two
*two
*three
* 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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
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
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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