Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Foswiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Version
2.3.13
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
2.1.8
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Foswiki Community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
BSD
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
All
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
caching of content into database using plugins
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Development/Support Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
97 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PmWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Foswiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== 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
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* 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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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