Wicked vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.0.8
16.2.0
1.32.2
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Author
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
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 Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
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
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, 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
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Wicked XWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
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^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
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]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term
: definition
; 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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