XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Version
18.5.0
6.3.0
0.61
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-29 (29 days ago)
2026-07-18 (10 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPLv2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
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
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
OS Independent
any
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Other
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
8616 ⭐
Common Features XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
DTML
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki WackoWiki Zwiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
{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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