WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Zwiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Version
6.2.0
1.32.2
0.61
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPLv2
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
all
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Zope
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
Optional
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
No
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
114 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
DTML
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
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..
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
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
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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