WikkaWiki vs. Confluence

General Features WikkaWiki Confluence
Version
1.4.2
5.2
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features WikkaWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements WikkaWiki Confluence
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage WikkaWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Features WikkaWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
No
Statistics WikkaWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output WikkaWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki Confluence
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^superscript^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
~subscript~
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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