| General Features | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.113
|
5.1.21
|
6.1.29
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
1.32.2
|
| 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)
|
2019-06-06 (6 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)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
| Author |
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
|
BSD
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
XOTcl and Tcl
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
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
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
|
Any
|
OS Independent
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
A common browser
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
|
optional extensions available
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
8469 ⭐
|
54 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
JavaScript
|
actions (PHP)
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | XoWiki | TiddlyWiki | WackoWiki | TWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| 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]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| 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 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
|
''bold'' |
**bold** |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
|
//italic// |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{{monospaced}}} |
##monospace## |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--strikethrough-- |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
~~subscript~~ |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<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 |
[[Image:wiki.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 |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
one two |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * 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 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # 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 |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
---- |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove XoWiki | remove TiddlyWiki | remove WackoWiki | remove TWiki | remove MediaWiki |