WackoWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit vs. XWiki

General Features WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Version
6.2.1
0.72
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Dominic Hargreaves
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL/Artistic
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki Developers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit 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 Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Anything that runs Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything with CGI support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
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 Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Plugin Interface
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
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Preview
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
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 Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
0
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
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Unknown
No
Toolbar
Yes
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Output WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
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 Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Wiki-Toolkit XWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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