WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.4.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
6.1.24
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Hosting Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
No
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
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//Italics//
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
##monospace##
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
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


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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