WackoWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
6.1.29
2.1.9
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Foswiki Community
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
System Requirements WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
MariaDB
caching of content into database using plugins
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
116 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Media and Files WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Patch
No
Yes
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
Text Indentation
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{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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