EditMe vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
6.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.5
Last Release Date
N/A
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-01-10 (21 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-01-10 (21 days ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
0
N/A
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Hosting Features EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
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 EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples EditMe WackoWiki TWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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