JSPWiki vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Version
2.11.0
0.61
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Optional
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Plugin
No
Oracle
Optional
Plugin
No
SQLite
Optional
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Unknown
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
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
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
;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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