XWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Version
16.2.0
2.3.32
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
6.1.24
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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