XoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Version
0.113
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
6.1.25
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Any
all
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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 XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Yes
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Output XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples XoWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
;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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