XoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.113
5.1.21
6.2.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
System Requirements XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Any
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Yes
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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