Wiki-Toolkit vs. Confluence vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.72
5.2
6.2.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Dominic Hargreaves
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL/Artistic
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Hosting Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Anything that runs Perl
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything with CGI support
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin Interface
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki-Toolkit Confluence WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[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
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# 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}
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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