MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Version
1.32.2
6.1.25
2.11.0
2.1.8
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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88 ⭐
97 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* 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


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. 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}
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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