JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
16.2.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Media and Files JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
; 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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