PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (25 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (24 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
personal, small to medium companies
all
System Requirements PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, 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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Plugin
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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