MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.32.2
5.2
6.2.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Hosting Features MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; 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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