| General Features | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.2.1
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2.0.8
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18.4.0
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
|
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
|
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
|
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
|
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
|
| Author |
WackoWiki Team
|
The Horde Project
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
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GPL 2
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
|
| Hosting Features | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Operating System |
OS Independent
|
Any
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Text_Wiki from PEAR
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
| Datastorage | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
MariaDB
|
None
|
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
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
25 different backends
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
54 ⭐
|
1 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, 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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
No
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
None
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
actions (PHP)
|
No
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | WackoWiki | Wicked | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[a Link] [namespace:link] [link With a Title] |
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) |
| External Link |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://example.com] [http://example.com With a Title] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
+ Level 1 Heading ++ Level 2 Heading +++ Level 3 Heading ++++ Level 4 Heading +++++ Level 5 Heading ++++++ Level 6 Heading |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
//italics// |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
@@+++ underline @@ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
{{monospace}} |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
@@--- strikethrough @@ |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
local.jpg http://foo.bar/baz.jpg [http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text] |
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%% |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
one two |
|
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 |
* Bullet one * Sub-bullet |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
# Numero uno # Number two # Sub-item |
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} |
: Item 1 : Something : Item 2 : Something else |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove WackoWiki | remove Wicked | remove XWiki |