MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Zwiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Version
1.32.2
2.11.0
0.61
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
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
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
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 MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
DTML
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples MediaWiki JSPWiki Zwiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[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
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


Definition Lists
; term : definition
;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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