TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WiGit vs. wxWikiServer

General Features TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Version
5.1.21
0.11.5
6.2.1
0.1
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
Remko Tronçon
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
PHP
C++
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
other
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users
End users/Desktop
System Requirements TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Operating System
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
built-in
Other Requirements
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Git
None
Datastorage TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Text Files
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
MariaDB
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
unknown
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8587 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
141
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, Javanese, 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
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
no
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Usability TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
No
Extras TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit wxWikiServer
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[InternalLink]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Headline
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
*Bold*
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
_Italics_
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
@monospace@
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
!image.jpg!
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
>Right-aligned
] centred text
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
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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