WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wicked

General Features WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Version
6.1.25
16.3.1
1.32.2
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Operating System
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
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
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
##monospace##
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
; term : definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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