Corendal Wiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. GWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Version
3.0.2
2.11.0
16.2.0
1.32.2
2.4.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
Author
Thierry Danard
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Roger Rene Kommer
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Corporate
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Unix / Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java 5.0
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Java 1.8+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
No
Google Datastore
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory or Local Accounts
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Internal and external with adapter
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
140
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, 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
2
German, English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Output Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Corendal Wiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki: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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
_Italic format_
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
+Unterlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{Monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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