PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki

General Features PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Version
1.5.1
6.1.25
2.11.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Operating System
OS independent
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
88 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki TWiki
Internal Link 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
 
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
 
== 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 ==
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
''bold''
 
**bold**
 
__bold__
 
**bold**
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
'''italic'''
 
//italics//
 
''italics''
 
//italics//
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
%%%underlined%%%
 
__underline__
 
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
 
__underlined__
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
N/A
 
##monospace##
 
{{monospace}}
 
''monospace''
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
%%strikethrough%%
 
--strikethrough--
 
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
N/A
 
^^superscript^^
 
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
N/A
 
vvsubscriptvv
 
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
 
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
 
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
 
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
 
%%(text-align: right) text %%
 
Plugin
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
N/A
 
one
two
 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
 
N/A
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

*one
**One-two
*two
*three

* 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
 
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break



# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
:term|definition
 
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
 
;term:definition
 
Plugin
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
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