WikiASP vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. XWiki

General Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Version
1.6.2
6.2.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
18.1.0
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2026-02-23 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-03-03 (15 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2026-02-23 (23 days ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
BSD
Public Domain (!)
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ASP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows
OS Independent
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
MS Access DB
MariaDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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 XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Patch
No
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Links WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
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
No
Statistics WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Output WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
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
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
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
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikiASP WackoWiki ErfurtWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
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)
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
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
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
__underline__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
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]
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
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* List
** list
*** list
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

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
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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