XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
18.0.1
2.11.0
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
Hosting Features XWiki JSPWiki 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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
Plugin
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
114 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
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
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
Images
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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# 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 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;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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