WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Version
6.1.25
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
16.2.0
2.11.0
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-03-23 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (25 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
All
Hosting Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
None
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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