TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Version
5.1.21
6.1.25
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Development/Support TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
32 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
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
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Optional
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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