CanvasWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.2.101
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.11.5
1.0.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Edgewall Software
Clay Alberty
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Modified BSD license
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
Software development teams
all
System Requirements CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
OS Independent
any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
IIS 5+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
Access, SQL Server
MariaDB
no
0
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
.NET Membership platform
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Patch
No
No
Yes
Development/Support CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
114 ⭐
Common Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Yes
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
optional
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Usability CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
No
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Statistics CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Output CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[pagename]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
{title|url}
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!, !!, !!!
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''ialic text''
''italic''
''italics''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
optional or via css
__underline__
__under__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
~~strike-through~~
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
available through custom tags
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
#
##
###
####
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{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
term::
definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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