MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Confluence

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Version
1.32.2
6.2.0
2.11.0
5.2
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
112 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
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 WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+underline+
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~subscript~
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
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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