WackoWiki vs. Wiclear vs. JSPWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XoWiki

General Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Version
6.3.0
1.0
2.11.0
0.61
0.113
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)
2009-02-17 (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)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
Apache Software Foundation
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL2
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Python
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
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
large and small organizations as well as individuals
System Requirements WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
All
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Yes
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
AOLServer
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
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 XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Development/Support WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
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
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
DTML
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Patch
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Statistics WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Output WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Patch
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Wiclear JSPWiki Zwiki XoWiki
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
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