ErfurtWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.3.13
5.1.21
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (6 days ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any
Anything supported by Perl
Any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
no
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
8587 ⭐
55 ⭐
Common Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
optional
Perl
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
optional or via css
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
{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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Depending on plugins:
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