WikiASP vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.6.2
6.2.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
ASP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
all
System Requirements WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows
OS Independent
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
MS Access DB
MariaDB
no
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
113 ⭐
Common Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Links WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

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

image:local:icon.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
[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%%
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

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


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# 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}
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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