ProWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.0.045
6.2.1
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
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
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
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
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
No
Other
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
8562 ⭐
Common Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki WackoWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
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
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
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
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
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
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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