WackoWiki vs. Wiclear vs. JSPWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Version
6.3.0
1.0
2.11.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-18 (1 month ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
Apache Software Foundation
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL2
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users
all
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Operating System
OS Independent
All
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Output WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Title]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
[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%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
# 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}
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
remove WackoWiki remove Wiclear remove JSPWiki remove Zwiki