PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Confluence vs. WackoWiki

General Features PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
5.2
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-02-27 (today)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
all
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
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 PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PhpWiki JSPWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[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]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[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
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
;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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