TWiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
16.3.0
5.1.21
1.32.2
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
Database
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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 XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
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
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki 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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! 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'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//Italics//
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; 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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