TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Version
5.1.21
6.2.0
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
8524 ⭐
54 ⭐
112 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Links TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki TWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italics''
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[ 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
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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