TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
various opt. helpers
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki 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 TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
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
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki 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
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
No
Contents
Extras TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! 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* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
~~subscript~~
vvsubscriptvv
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# 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
Term:<def>
def
; 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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----
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