JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
2.11.0
1.45.3
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months 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)
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.
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any
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
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
116 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
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
No
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
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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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[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]
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====
== 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**
**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^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,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
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
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
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
{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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