Wikidot vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Friki

General Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Version
6.2.0
5.1.21
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2026-02-27 (today)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
BSD
BSD
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
private users and small teams
Hosting Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
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 Friki
Operating System
OS Independent
Any
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
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
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
8553 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot WackoWiki TiddlyWiki Friki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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]]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
== 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//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
monospace
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
[[image src="..."]]
((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
Aligning Text
= Centered line
{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.
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
:        indented
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* first
* second
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
1. first
1. second
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
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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