ProWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Version
2.0.045
6.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Academic Free License
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Other
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Output ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki SubWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
N/A
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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