DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Friki

General Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
6.2.0
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
BSD
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users and small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
OS Independent
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any that can run or call Java
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4541 ⭐
8548 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Special Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Friki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! 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**
'''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
monospace
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
Aligning Text
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

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


1. first
1. second
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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