WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Hatta

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Version
6.2.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Mercurial
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
56 ⭐
4573 ⭐
8556 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Hatta
Internal Link 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link 
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
 
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
 
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
 
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 ==
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
 
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
''bold''
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
//italics//
 
//italic//
 
//italic//
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
__underlined__
 
__underline__
 
n/a
Monospace Format 
##monospace##
 
''monospace''
 
{{{monospaced}}}
 
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format 
--strikethrough--
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
 
--strikethrough--
 
n/a
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^^superscript^^
 
n/a
Subscript Format 
,,subscript,,
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
~~subscript~~
 
n/a
Images 
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
 
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
 
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text 
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
 
Plugin
 
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
 
n/a
Text Indentation 
one
two
 
N/A
 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
 
n/a
Bulleted Lists 
*one
**One-two
*two
*three

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists 
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break



- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
n/a
Definition Lists 
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
 
Plugin
 
; term
: description
 
n/a
Horizontal Rule 
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