WikiASP vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.6.2
1.32.2
18.0.1
6.2.0
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
ASP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Other
MS Access DB
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Development/Support WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 XWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
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
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
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Media and Files WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Examples WikiASP MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

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

image:local:icon.jpg
[[Image:wiki.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
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
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


Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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