Roadkill vs. Wicked vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Version
1.6
2.0.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
2.11.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
27/04/2013
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-04-11 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-04-25 (10 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
Author
C.Small
The Horde Project
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MS-PL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Operating System
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS, Apache
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
Text_Wiki from PEAR
various opt. helpers
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Patch
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
SQL Server, MongoDB
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
25 different backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
3
Czech, English, Polish
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
French
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
No
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
No
Patch
Conflict Handling
None
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Page Redirects
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Some
None
Some
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
No
No
Scripting
none
No
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Usability Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Output Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Calendar
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Optional
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Roadkill Wicked PhpWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[[Pagename|linkname]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[[URL|linkname]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[ ]]
Headlines
== Large heading
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
** bold **
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
__bold__
** **
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italics''
// //
Underline Format
_underline_
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__ __
Monospace Format
{{

monospace

}}
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
## ##
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[ 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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet List
** Sub item
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
# Numbered list
## Sub item
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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