TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
16.3.1
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Media and Files TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Examples TWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italic//
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; 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
---
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