Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.3.13
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2026-04-25 (6 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
8587 ⭐
4606 ⭐
55 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, 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
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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 ======
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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