WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
6.2.1
2.11.0
18.2.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-04-09 (10 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-04-09 (10 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
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
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Development/Support WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
114 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
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
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
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
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,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'}]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
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
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
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
Horizontal Rule
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