TWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-16 (today)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clay Alberty
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS 5+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
Unknown
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
.NET Membership platform
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Output TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[pagename]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
{title|url}
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!, !!, !!!
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__under__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
available through custom tags
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#
##
###
####
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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