WikiASP vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.6.2
1.32.2
6.2.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
ASP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
System Requirements WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Any with PHP support
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
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Optional
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Other
MS Access DB
No
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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113 ⭐
Common Features WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Output WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
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
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras WikiASP MediaWiki 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
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''The quotation''
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((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
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
: indented line
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# 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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