JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
112 ⭐
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki PhpWiki 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
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 PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
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
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
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
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PhpWiki TWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!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 ======
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ 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
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?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 %%
;: 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
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# 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


Definition Lists
;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}
Horizontal Rule
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