WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Version
6.2.0
1.32.2
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
0.61
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Zope
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
A common browser
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
optional extensions available
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Patch
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
N/A
112 ⭐
N/A
8515 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ 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]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
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
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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