WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Version
6.2.0
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Academic Free License
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Files, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
112 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Patch
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Usability WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
N/A
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
Text Indentation
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
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: Definition
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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