WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
1.6.2
18.0.1
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
ASP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
MS Access DB
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
no
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
0
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Links WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Output WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP XWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
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
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

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

image:local:icon.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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

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


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

Definition Lists
; term
: definition
{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
Horizontal Rule
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