giewiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. mobiki

General Features giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Version
1.13.1
6.1.25
TWiki-6.1.0
16.3.0
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2011-07-20 (12 years ago)
2024-04-11 (26 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-29 (8 days ago)
2016-06-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (12 years ago)
2024-04-11 (26 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (7 days ago)
2016-06-26 (7 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
BSD
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
other
Database
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Text centric websites and mobile use
Hosting Features giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
any
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
App Engine
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
[Internal Link]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
!Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!Headline
Bold Format
''Bald''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italy//
//italics//
_italic_
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
n/a
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
n/a
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
n/a
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
___
aligned text
___
Text Indentation
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
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
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
---
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