JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
2.11.0
1.45.3
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
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, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
116 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
34
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{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
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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----
----
---
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