ErfurtWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
6.2.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
System Requirements ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything 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
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
no
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''ialic text''
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
optional or via css
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
((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
optional or via css
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
{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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