GWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.4.0
6.1.25
2.3.33
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
WackoWiki Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
All
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
A common browser
Datastorage GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
Google Datastore
MariaDB
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
actions (PHP)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki WackoWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
vvsubscriptvv
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
one
two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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