| General Features | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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2.11.0
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6.2.1
|
5.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
|
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
|
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
Apache
|
Apache License 2.0
|
BSD
|
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
Java
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database, Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
all
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
OS Independent
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
MariaDB
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
113 ⭐
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
actions (PHP)
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
|
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | JSPWiki | WackoWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
|
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
|
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
|
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
|
__bold__ |
**bold** |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
|
''italics'' |
//italics// |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
|
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
__underline__ |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{monospace}} |
##monospace## |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
--strikethrough-- |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
|
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
^^superscript^^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
,,subscript,, |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
|
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
one two |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
|
;term:definition |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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