| General Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
|
5.1.21
|
2.67
|
6.2.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT/X
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Lua
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small teams or private users
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Anyone
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Any
|
Any
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Any, or none
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
A common browser
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
|
| Datastorage | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Git
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
MariaDB
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
optional extensions available
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
8557 ⭐
|
N/A
|
56 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
JavaScript
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | TiddlyWiki | ikiwiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Sputnik]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[internal]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
''bold'' |
**bold** __bold__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//italic// |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{{monospaced}}} |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--strikethrough-- |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
~~subscript~~ |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
  |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
|
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
|
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
|
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : description |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
---- |
| remove Sputnik | remove TiddlyWiki | remove ikiwiki | remove WackoWiki |