Wikidot vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.1
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 day ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL 2
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Unknown
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
None
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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55 ⭐
8554 ⭐
Common Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
====== 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 text**
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
[[image src="..."]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
= Centered line
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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