wxWikiServer vs. Hatta vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Instiki

General Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Version
1.5.11c
1.6.6
5.1.21
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Radomir Dopieralski
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL v2
BSD
Ruby's
Programming Language
C++
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
general, education
System Requirements wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
None
Mercurial
A common browser
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
unknown
n/a
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Development/Support wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
No
Special Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
No
Comments
Flat
No
Plugin
No
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Links wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
no
JavaScript
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
No
Usability wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Output wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer Hatta TiddlyWiki Instiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//italic//
//italic//
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
n/a
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospaced}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
n/a
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
n/a
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
] centred text
n/a
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
; term
: description
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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