PBwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki

General Features PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Version
N/A
6.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
PBworks
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
N/A
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Operating System
N/A
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Yes
Other
N/A
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki WackoWiki TWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
== 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*
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Indented block
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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