TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
System Requirements TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TWiki 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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support TWiki 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
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Common Features TWiki 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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
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
Optional
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 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>underline</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
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
Horizontal Rule
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