MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.45.3
6.3.0
0.61
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
any
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
No
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Development/Support MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
8616 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
DTML
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
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
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* 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
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
Horizontal Rule
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