WikkaWiki vs. Confluence vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.4.2
5.2
2.11.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Atlassian
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
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
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache Tomcat
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
113 ⭐
55 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Output WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki Confluence JSPWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
+underline+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
-strikethrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
~subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
;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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