WackoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Version
6.3.0
0.61
1.45.3
18.5.0
5.1.21
1.0
Last Release Date
2026-07-18 (1 day ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2026-06-29 (20 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-18 (1 day ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2026-06-29 (20 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPLv2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Ruby
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Private, Public
Hosting Features WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
OS Independent
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Zope
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Ruby
Datastorage WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
MariaDB
ZODB (zope object database)
No
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Git
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
8610 ⭐
242 ⭐
Common Features WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
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 Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
DTML
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Patch
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki Zwiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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..
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image:wiki.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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
one
two
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
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
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# 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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