JSPWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.5.1
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (29 days ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
PukiWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
One theme, one PukiWiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
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
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
No
Optional
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Media and Files JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PukiWiki TWiki WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
__bold__
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
'''italic'''
_italic_
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;term:definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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