WikiCrowd vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.0.16
5.1.21
6.2.0
Last Release Date
29 Nov, 2010
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Stas Davydov
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, Corporate, Community
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any
Any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
No
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Plugin, JavaScript
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples WikiCrowd TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
! 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**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
No
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
No
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
No
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
_subscript_
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
Images
@img url
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
No
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
No
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
Bulleted Lists
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
No
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
No
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
No
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