TiddlyWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Version
5.1.21
2.67
6.2.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (8 days ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Anyone
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Any
Any
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any, or none
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8557 ⭐
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
actions (PHP)
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Output TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki ikiwiki WackoWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[internal]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[link text](http://example.org)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
! 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 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# 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


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
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}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
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