WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Version
6.1.25
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everyone
System Requirements WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Node.js
Datastorage WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Optional
Other
MariaDB
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
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 WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Output WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples WackoWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
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
Horizontal Rule
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