TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Version
5.1.21
6.2.0
0.113
1.32.2
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (29 days ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (30 days ago)
2009-03-13 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
XOTcl and Tcl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
large and small organizations as well as individuals
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
AOLServer
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
8501 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
111 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
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 XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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
3
German, English, Spanish
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Yes
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Statistics TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Output TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
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
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WackoWiki XoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
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
# 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}
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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