Wiki.js vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.5.299
16.3.1
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2024-05-09 (6 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2024-05-13 (2 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Javascript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
All
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Node.js
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
Plugin
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
19117 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JS, CSS
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Patch
Office Export
No
Yes
Patch
Media and Files Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Examples Wiki.js XWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/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.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{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
one
two
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; 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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