PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MojoMojo

General Features PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Version
2.5.8
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
1.02
Last Release Date
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Artistic License
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
FREE
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
System Requirements PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Any OS that runs Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Catalyst
Datastorage PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Patch
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Development/Support PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Output PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[another page]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Textile: ^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Textile: ~subscript~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Textile:
> text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* an item
* another item
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# item 1
# item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
<hr />
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