JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. MediaWiki

General Features JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Version
2.11.0
6.1.25
2.3.13
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (29 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (29 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
# 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 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
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
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
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 Oddmuse MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, 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
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Perl
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Output JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse MediaWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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/] → [1]

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

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

section
=======

subsection
----------
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

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

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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