Instiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.30.0
2.11.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (29 days ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
Oracle
Plugin
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
None
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Yes
Usability Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Optional
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Instiki JSPWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

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


Definition Lists
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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