MojoMojo vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki

General Features MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Version
1.02
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
16.8.0
Last Release Date
2010-08-29 (14 years ago)
2024-04-11 (5 months ago)
2007-06-30 (17 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-09-29 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-09-01 (14 years ago)
2024-04-11 (5 months ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-10-01 (4 days ago)
Author
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Artistic License
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
FREE
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
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
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any OS that runs Perl
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Has its own server; can run with any web server
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Catalyst
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Patch
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Security/Anti-Spam MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Development/Support MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MojoMojo WackoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[another page]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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)
External Link
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
Textile: ^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Textile: ~subscript~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ 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'}]
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
Aligning Text
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Textile:
> text
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* an item
* another item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# item 1
# item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr />
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