MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== 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 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
:indent

> quote

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


Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
----
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