TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Hatta vs. Friki

General Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Version
5.1.21
6.2.0
1.6.6
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Radomir Dopieralski
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
GPL v2
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users and small teams
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any that can run or call Java
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Mercurial
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
8524 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
No
Special Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Usability TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WackoWiki Hatta Friki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
{{{verbatim}}}
monospace
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
n/a
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
n/a
:        indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
** sublist
* first
* second
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


n/a
1. first
1. second
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
n/a
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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