| General Features | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
|
6.2.0
|
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
0.11.5
|
2.11.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
|
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Edgewall Software
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
BSD
|
Public Domain (!)
|
Modified BSD license
|
Apache License 2.0
|
| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
Software development teams
|
all
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
OS Independent
|
any
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
MariaDB
|
no
|
0
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
114 ⭐
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
141
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, Javanese, 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 |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
optional
|
yes, using Python
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
|
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | WackoWiki | ErfurtWiki | TracWiki | JSPWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
| External Link |
|
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
| Headlines |
|
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
| Italics Format |
|
//italics// |
''ialic text'' |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
optional or via css |
__underline__ |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
==monospaced text== |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--strikethrough-- |
optional or via css |
~~strike-through~~ |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript text^^ |
^superscript^ |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
| Subscript Format |
|
vvsubscriptvv |
optional or via css |
,,subscript,, |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
| Images |
|
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[link to the image.jpg] |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
| Aligning Text |
|
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
optional or via css |
|
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
| Text Indentation |
|
one two |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
|
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
* 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 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
# 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} |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
term:: definition |
;term:definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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