JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2.11.0
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Plugin
Oracle
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Plugin
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
114 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Links JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
;term:definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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