WackoWiki vs. PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
6.1.25
2.3.33
1.32.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-20 (27 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-04-21 (26 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
none
A common browser
Datastorage WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
MariaDB
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Development/Support WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# 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
7039 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
actions (PHP)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Patch
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki PmWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[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 text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
one
two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# 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
: description
Horizontal Rule
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