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

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.32.2
6.1.24
16.2.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
all
Hosting Features MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.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
[ 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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* list
or
- list
* 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


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# 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:<def>
def
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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