Zwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Confluence

General Features Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Version
0.61
6.2.0
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.2
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPLv2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Any
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Operating System
any
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
112 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
DTML
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki WackoWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[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 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
~subscript~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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