Git-Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zim vs. TiddlyWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XoWiki

General Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Version
1.0
6.2.1
0.56
5.1.21
2.11.0
0.113
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (2 days ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
2026-03-03 (2 days ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-03-13 (16 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Jaap Karssenberg
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Java
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users, small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
all
large and small organizations as well as individuals
System Requirements Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Operating System
*nix
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
None
Not required (optional backends available)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
AOLServer
Other Requirements
Ruby
mod_rewrite (optional)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
A common browser
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
Git
MariaDB
Text Files with index in SQLite
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File permissions
optional extensions available
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
8556 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
No
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
actions (PHP)
None
JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Statistics Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
//italic//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
``monospace``
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
~~subscript~~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{Image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{./image.png}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[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%%
not implemented
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
one
two
indent with tabs
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# 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}
not implemented
; term
: description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
not implemented
----
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