TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Version
5.1.21
6.2.0
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8524 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
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
Unlimited
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 WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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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
140
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, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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}
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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