WackoWiki vs. WiGit vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Version
6.2.0
0.1
5.1.21
2.1.10
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Remko Tronçon
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Database
other
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Git
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
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
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
Git repositories
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
8538 ⭐
118 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Flat
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Output WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki WiGit TiddlyWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[InternalLink]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
*Bold*
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
_Italics_
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
+underlined+
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
@monospace@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
~subscript~
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
!image.jpg!
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
>Right-aligned
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* 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


# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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