MediaWiki vs. Wicked vs. GWiki vs. Instiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Version
1.32.2
2.0.8
2.4.0
0.30.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
The Horde Project
Roger Rene Kommer
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
Apache License, Version 2.0
Ruby's
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Ruby on Rails
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
general, education
all
System Requirements MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Any
All Java Servlet Container, included
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 1.8+
Ruby 2.0-2.6
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
No
None
Google Datastore
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
25 different backends
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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4 ⭐
478 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
2
German, English
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Links MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
No
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
None
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Optional
No
No
No
No
Output MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Optional
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Wicked GWiki Instiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.com]
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*Bold Format*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_Italic format_
_italic_, *italic*
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
@@+++ underline @@
+Unterlined+
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
@@--- strikethrough @@
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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