TiddlyWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Version
5.1.21
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
family people, hackers
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
A common browser
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
8585 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
''bold''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term
: description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
{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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Depending on plugins:
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