ProntoWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. TWiki

General Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Version
1.0.1
6.2.0
1.02
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2026-01-30 (today)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
WackoWiki Team
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
Artistic License
GPL
Programming Language
C#
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
FREE
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Operating System
Windows
OS Independent
Any OS that runs Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
mod_rewrite (optional)
Catalyst
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
Patch
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
No
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Links ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Output ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[another page]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
{title|url}
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
_italics_
_italic_
Underline Format
__under__
__underline__
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--strikethrough--
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
Textile: ^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
vvsubscriptvv
Textile: ~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
one
two
Textile:
> text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* an item
* another item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# item 1
# item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
{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
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr />
---
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