PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki

General Features PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
2.3.13
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
all
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
67 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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 PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
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
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Output PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples PhpWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[ 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'}]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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