WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. mobiki

General Features WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Version
6.1.25
TWiki-6.1.0
16.3.1
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2016-06-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2016-06-26 (7 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Text centric websites and mobile use
Hosting Features WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
any
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
MariaDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
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
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
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
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki TWiki XWiki mobiki
Internal Link 
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
 
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)
 
[Internal Link]
External Link 
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
 
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
 
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
 
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines 
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
 
!Headline
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
*bold*

**bold**
 
'''bold'''
Italics Format 
//italics//
 
_italic_
 
//Italics//
 
''italics''
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
<u>underline</u>
 
__underline__
 
n/a
Monospace Format 
##monospace##
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

##monospace##
 
n/a
Strikethrough Format 
--strikethrough--
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
--Strike--
 
n/a
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
^^superscript^^
 
n/a
Subscript Format 
vvsubscriptvv
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
,,subscript,,
 
n/a
Images 
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
 
%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
 
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text 
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
 
___
aligned text
___
Text Indentation 
one
two
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
 
n/a
Bulleted Lists 
*one
**One-two
*two
*three

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* List
** list
*** list
 
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists 
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break



1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
 
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
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
 
n/a
Horizontal Rule 
----
 
---
 
----
 
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