Wikidot vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
6.2.0
5.1.21
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2026-02-27 (today)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
BSD
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
small + medium sites, development teams
Hosting Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
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 WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
none
Datastorage Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
no
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Patch
Development/Support Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
8553 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Optional
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
''bold''
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
//italic//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underline__
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
optional or via css
Images
[[image src="..."]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
= Centered line
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
: item : description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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