WackoWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki

General Features WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Version
6.1.25
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
67 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
No
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Oddmuse TWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
one
two
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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}
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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