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

General Features Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Version
3.0.2
16.2.0
2.11.0
1.32.2
6.1.25
0.61
Last Release Date
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Thierry Danard
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Corporate
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Unix / Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Other Requirements
Java 5.0
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
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
No
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory or Local Accounts
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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 XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
actions (PHP)
DTML
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Output Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Corendal Wiki XWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki
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]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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..
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
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:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
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 %%
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
{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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