WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Roadkill vs. Wikepage

General Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Version
6.2.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
5.1.21
1.6
2008.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
27/04/2013
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2013-04-25 (13 years ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
C.Small
Jose Carlos Medeiros
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
BSD
MS-PL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Private users, small groups
System Requirements WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Platform Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
IIS, Apache
Server Independent
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
n/a
Datastorage WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
SQL Server, MongoDB
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
No
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
4606 ⭐
8587 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Special Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
3
Czech, English, Polish
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
None
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Links WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Some
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
none
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
No
Extras WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Roadkill Wikepage
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[Pagename|linkname]]
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
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]]
[[URL|linkname]]
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
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
== Large heading
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
** bold **
**Bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
//italics//
''Italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
_underline_
__Underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
{{

monospace

}}
With a space in front of the text
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.jpg.|title}}
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
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
* Bullet List
** Sub item
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
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
# Numbered list
## Sub item
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
Horizontal Rule
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