KeheiWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki

General Features KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
6.2.1
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
team
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
BSD
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
OS Independent
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
8562 ⭐
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
== 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
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
//italics//
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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