WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Friki vs. DokuWiki

General Features WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Version
6.2.0
5.1.21
2.1.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-27 (today)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Frank Carver
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
ASL or LGPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
private users and small teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Any
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Any that can run or call Java
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
8553 ⭐
N/A
4554 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
No
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
No
Optional
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
monospace
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
:        indented
N/A
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* first
* second
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. first
1. second
- 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
: description
title:        description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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