PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
5.1.21
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (6 days ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
8587 ⭐
55 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
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 ======
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
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]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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


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