PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki

General Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.1.25
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-11 (18 days ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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