JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. WackoWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
5.2
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-02-27 (today)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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