WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Confluence

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Version
6.2.1
1.32.2
2.11.0
5.2
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
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
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki 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 MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
MariaDB
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
114 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
No
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
No
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[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 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~subscript~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# 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:definition
Horizontal Rule
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