TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TWiki WackoWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Development/Support TWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features TWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Links TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Output TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
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
$ 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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