XoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki

General Features XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Version
0.113
5.1.21
6.1.29
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Any
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8469 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Yes
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples XoWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! 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
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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