Zim vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.56
6.2.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2025-12-14 (29 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2025-12-13 (30 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
System Requirements Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
None
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
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
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 Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
None
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Optional
Usability Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
=== Heading ===
== 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
``monospace``
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
_{sub}
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{./image.png}}
((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
not implemented
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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