MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XoWiki vs. TWiki

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Version
1.32.2
6.2.1
5.1.21
0.113
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-03-13 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
BSD
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
XOTcl and Tcl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
AOLServer
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
No
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 MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
8557 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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
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
3
German, English, Spanish
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Yes
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki XoWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== 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
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((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
<center>Centered</center>
{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
: indented line
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
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
{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
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