JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.11.0
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
116 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki 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
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, 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
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples JSPWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
| 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 %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
;term:definition
Depending on plugins:
; 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
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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