MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.32.2
18.0.1
2.11.0
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
# 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
N/A
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55 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
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 XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
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
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
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>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[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>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# 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
;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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