Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
1 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
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
No
Special Features Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Patch
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki Wicked
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
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://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]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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
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__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%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]
Aligning Text
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
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
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; 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
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
---
----
----
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