TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ButorWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Version
5.1.21
1.32.2
6.2.1
2.2.1
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Aiman Sawan
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
BSD
LGPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
SMB
System Requirements TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any webserver
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Tomcat 4.1 +
Datastorage TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8557 ⭐
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
actions (PHP)
Internal Macros
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Output TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Extras TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki ButorWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
<a href="..."></a>
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
<a href="..."></a>
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
<b>Bold</b>
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
<i>Italics</i>
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>Underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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