JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. GWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.11.0
6.1.25
2.4.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Roger Rene Kommer
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
family people, hackers
System Requirements JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 1.8+
Writable data directory
Datastorage JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
Google Datastore
No
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
4 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
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
2
German, English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Media and Files JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
*Bold Format*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_Italic format_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{Monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
-StrikeThrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^Superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
~Subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
no example known
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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