| General Features | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.0.045
|
6.2.0
|
2.11.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
|
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
|
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Helmut Leitner
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
BSD
|
Apache License 2.0
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
all
|
| System Requirements | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Operating System |
Unix / Linux
|
OS Independent
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
|
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
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
| Datastorage | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
54 ⭐
|
112 ⭐
|
| Common Features | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
No
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Usability | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ProWiki | WackoWiki | JSPWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
| External Link |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
| Headlines |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
__bold__ |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
--strikethrough-- |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>text</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>text</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
| Images |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
((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 |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line :: indented line |
one two |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
| Bulleted Lists |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
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 |
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