WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Version
6.3.0
1.45.3
5.1.21
1.0
Last Release Date
2026-07-18 (1 day ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-18 (1 day ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
BSD
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Ruby
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Private, Public
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
A common browser
Ruby
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Git
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
optional extensions available
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
8610 ⭐
242 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
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
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
JavaScript
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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
: description
Horizontal Rule
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