| General Features | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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TWiki-6.1.0
|
6.2.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
|
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
|
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Atlassian
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPL
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GPL
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BSD
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| Programming Language |
Java
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Any
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| Hosting Features | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
various opt. helpers
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
| Datastorage | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
MariaDB
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
54 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | 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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | PhpWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>above</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>below</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
| 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 |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
|
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
|
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* list or - list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# list |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| 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} |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove Confluence | remove PhpWiki | remove TWiki | remove WackoWiki |