Confluence vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Version
5.2
1.32.2
6.2.1
2.11.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Zope
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
No
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
115 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Output Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
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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