TracWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. GWiki

General Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Version
0.11.5
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
2.11.0
6.1.25
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Hosting Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 1.8+
Datastorage TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
0
None
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
4 ⭐
Common Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
141
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, Javanese, 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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki GWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italics''
//italics//
_Italic format_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
~Subscript~
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
term::
definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
;term:definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
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