Confluence vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
5.2
6.2.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-02-27 (today)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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