MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2026-02-27 (today)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Links MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
{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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