WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. Corendal Wiki

General Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Version
6.2.1
18.1.0
3.0.2
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2010-04-23 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2010-04-23 (15 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Thierry Danard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Corporate
Hosting Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Unix / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Java 5.0
Datastorage WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
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 XWiki Corendal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory or Local Accounts
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
No
Office Export
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki
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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