Git-Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zim vs. ButorWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.0
6.2.1
0.56
2.2.1
1.32.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Jaap Karssenberg
Aiman Sawan
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
GPL
LGPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users, small teams
SMB
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
None
Any webserver
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Ruby
mod_rewrite (optional)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Tomcat 4.1 +
none
A common browser
Datastorage Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Git
MariaDB
Text Files with index in SQLite
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File permissions
None
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
8586 ⭐
Common Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
30
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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
No
Flat
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
actions (PHP)
None
Internal Macros
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Output Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Keywords
No
Extras Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki WackoWiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
<a href="..."></a>
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
<a href="..."></a>
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
=== Heading ===
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
<b>Bold</b>
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
//italic//
<i>Italics</i>
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
{{Image.png}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{./image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
not implemented
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
one
two
indent with tabs
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
not implemented
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
----
not implemented
----
----
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