Wiki.js vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Version
2.5.299
17.10.0
6.1.29
2.1.9
Last Release Date
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2025-11-24 (11 days ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2025-11-25 (10 days ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Javascript
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Operating System
All
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Servlet 5.0+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Node.js
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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
MariaDB
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Development/Support Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
27408 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
116 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JS, CSS
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//Italics//
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
{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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