Git-Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zim vs. JSPWiki

General Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Version
1.0
6.2.1
0.56
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (2 days ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
2026-03-03 (2 days ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Jaap Karssenberg
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users, small teams
all
System Requirements Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
None
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Ruby
mod_rewrite (optional)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
Git
MariaDB
Text Files with index in SQLite
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File permissions
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
113 ⭐
Common Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
No
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
actions (PHP)
None
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Usability Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
``monospace``
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{Image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{./image.png}}
[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%%
not implemented
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
one
two
indent with tabs
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# 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}
not implemented
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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not implemented
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