DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.1
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4563 ⭐
55 ⭐
8554 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki 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 DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
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''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

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


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
{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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