WikkaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.4.2
1.32.2
6.1.25
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
No
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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 WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Patch
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
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 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
~~subscript~~
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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