PhpWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
6.2.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8524 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
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
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 PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term
: description
{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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