CanvasWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiASP

General Features CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Version
1.2.101
2.11.0
6.2.1
18.2.1
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2026-04-09 (1 day ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2026-04-09 (1 day ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
Apache License 2.0
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
FREE
Programming Language
ColdFusion
Java
PHP
Java
ASP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Hosting Features CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Windows
Root Access
No
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
Servlet 5.0+
IIS
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
Access, SQL Server
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
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
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
0
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Output CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki XWiki WikiASP
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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)
WikiWord
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
//Italics//
''The quotation''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
<space char here>This is mono
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
_This is Strike Through_
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
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
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* Test
* Bullets
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

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
Horizontal Rule
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