TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
5.1.21
6.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (2 months ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Optional
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8553 ⭐
55 ⭐
4551 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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