WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Confluence

General Features WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Version
6.2.0
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.2
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Any
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki 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 WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Operating System
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Yes
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
112 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
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 WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
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
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Extras WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
~subscript~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ 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
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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