MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked vs. XWiki

General Features MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Version
1.45.3
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
2.0.8
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
None
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Patch
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
None
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Yes
Media and Files MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TWiki WackoWiki Wicked XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
----
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